What do you bring to the confessional? Wasted hours; a kind thing undone, and another, and another; or some singular crime, a thought or deed that left a wound, some innocent bereft of confidence and cheer? Have you taken what was not yours to keep;...
Topics: About This Site, confession, poem, Poems, poetry

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Perhaps, like me, you live in a town, rather than a city or poor rural area, and assume that things are like they used to be at your local emergency hospital. That's what I assumed, if I thought about it at all. Five hours in the emergency room with..
Topics: emergency care, health care crisis, Health Care Reform, insurance

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I'm posting all three parts here, because I think it is one poem. Also, just to say -- this exercise has resulted in something much different than my usual. Whether this is a good or a bad thing, I can't yet tell: I. the walls are filled with the.
Topics: poem, Poems, poetry

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this is how it happens static in a closed room an electrical hum I open my hand sparks escape from my palm, crackling like petting a cat in the dark you reach out & touch my face a cradle, a caress it's warm there, where our skins meet unearth -- RWP.
Topics: poem, Poems, poetry

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This week's cat links: Carnival of the Cats is at Three Tabby Cats in Vienna and on Sunday will be at Pet's Garden Blog Weekend Cat Blogging is at Mind of Mog and will be at Tabbylicious Bad Kitty Cats Festival of Chaos is at House of the...
Topics: Friday Cat Blogging, Friday Cat Blogging 2009

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