A friend once described his cancer experienceas taking a dump in public,I’m at the sauna watching a little kid skip offjust having flushed a semi private toiletI wonder if this is a Western description, oran age marker of how we see our...
Topics: life, Poetry

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The trees are completely bareand the rain brings a foggy blanketof soft yellow contemplationand hair thin strings of light that enter my room.I feel lonely.For the next three weeksa 10km walk and weightswill be like sleep to a soldier mid war,making...
Topics: life, love, Poetry

{"title":"Hug me in silk and kiss my tears away","post_url":"http:\/\/claudiapena.com\/2008\/11\/26\/hug-me-in-silk-and-kiss-my-tears-away\/","feed_url":"http:\/\/claudiapena.com\/feed\/","author":"brownsugar797","date":"2008-11-26 02:11:06","summary":"The trees are completely bareand the rain brings a foggy blanketof soft yellow contemplationand hair thin strings of light that enter my room.I feel lonely.For the next three weeksa 10km walk and weightswill be like sleep to a soldier mid war,making..."}

It’s been so difficult to find motivation to do my routine. I make myself go to the gym but after 8 minutes my run turns to a walk and I do maybe half. I know I’m brooding, magnifying concerns, trying my hardest to be strong and allow logic [...]
Topics: Prose, Thoughts

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Sometimes I think Winter is a masochist,enjoying watermarking black over true blue skiesstripping green foliage to pallid tans,thick canopies of green now turned red carpetscrunching beneath boots and layers of coats.I wonder if the leaves enjoyed the...
Topics: Uncategorized

{"title":"Korean Sojourn","post_url":"http:\/\/claudiapena.com\/2008\/11\/15\/korean-sojourn\/","feed_url":"http:\/\/claudiapena.com\/feed\/","author":"brownsugar797","date":"2008-11-15 22:43:06","summary":"Sometimes I think Winter is a masochist,enjoying watermarking black over true blue skiesstripping green foliage to pallid tans,thick canopies of green now turned red carpetscrunching beneath boots and layers of coats.I wonder if the leaves enjoyed the..."}

I finished my 4-5 hour first of the month phone marathon to friends and family. Until next month, my life outside the classroom will be silent. A conversation echoes in my mind, “I bet you don’t write poetry anymore. I think you’re too busy for..
Topics: flash floods, Prose

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