Author Archives: Susan

REALITY: Morning Grief

Posted on July 24, 2004 by Susan

Rain-wet wings of hummingbirds don’t hum, they whistle in their flight to suck the nectar from a bloom or plastic replica of life. Things are too intense in silent focus when in avoidance of the known. I feel as if, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING & REALITY: Morning Meeting

Posted on July 23, 2004 by Susan

Backyard early morning like a New York City Chinese laundry circa 1927. Close your eyes and listen to the current country version of cotton rope on metal clothesline reels pulled in jerks to bring clothes in or push them out … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Mood Set

Posted on July 22, 2004 by Susan

Uh-oh. Getting a feeling of quiet desperation, all hope lost, dreams dissolved in the acid rain of daily living. Can’t share it here, it belongs to someone named Rachel. She’s crossing a field to a river and needs to be … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING & REALITY: Night Stories

Posted on July 21, 2004 by Susan

Nighttime is sounds you don’t hear in the sunshine. Tree frogs rule in the dark. Leaves don’t just flutter, they rustle instead; long grasses whisper, not bend in the breeze. Flying bugs click against clapboards, buzzing is mosquitoes, not bees. … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Voice

Posted on July 21, 2004 by Susan

My friend and professor, Steve Ersinghaus has hinted in a post on his weblog that I may finally have found my long-sought-after voice. I would point you to the post, but it’s embarrassing in its generousity as much as it … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY?: Free At Last!

Posted on July 21, 2004 by Susan

Ice cream for supper–Friendly’s Forbidden Chocolate, the best. Cookies and carrots for lunch. I shall breakfast tomorrow at three in the morning on spaghetti and snails–not escargot, and stay up until three Friday too. Maybe I’ll lock up the shop … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Experience

Posted on July 21, 2004 by Susan

Some time around four a.m. I fell through time. Deja vu in future tense, I feel at home within the skin surrounding what I’m guessing is a soul. Or maybe just a mind that is a four-drawer vertical filing cabinet … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Night Stories

Posted on July 20, 2004 by Susan

The moment my head touched the pillow I was asleep. No, that’s a lie. First I cried. Continue reading →

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CURRENT AFFAIRS: Aspirin Therapy & Profits

Posted on July 20, 2004 by Susan

From the “Guess who’s going to try their damnedest to use this vital information as a marketing ploy to make some money” department: For Some, Aspirin May Not Help Hearts By ANDREW POLLACK Published: July 20, 2004 New York Times … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY?: Evening Story

Posted on July 19, 2004 by Susan

Rarely do I sit out back in evening, but tonight, a book, a coffee mug and I are drawn to wet-washed early evening sky and cooling air. Brightest blue with just a touch of ochre from the sun, and who … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Discipline and Focus

Posted on July 19, 2004 by Susan

It seems I still am chunking it, writing bits and pieces that are unrelated, scattered like a shotgun at the world. Perhaps my mind is wizened by age and not the wiser, unable to focus to any depth on more … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: R comes before W

Posted on July 19, 2004 by Susan

Oh boy, oh joy. The mailman broughteth the new issue of Confrontation. Just when I’m feeling inadequate and uninnovative as a writer, imaginative and creative as the slowly slug. (slow + lowly = slowly, adj.) Why doth the pain and … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING & REALITY?: Fantasies and Feelings

Posted on July 19, 2004 by Susan

Lost the muse in mundane daily doings. Technology, creative and intense, sober, serious. Not fanciful, however, though perhaps in dreaming soft where knights fight dragons, bad men in black armor, and the princess calls down to her love all dressed … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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TECHNOLOGY: Phooey!

Posted on July 18, 2004 by Susan

Twelve hours later, with wires dripping the span of 150 feet, I am finally connected via wired cable service to the shop computer. Where I am now. Where, now that it works, I’m afraid to shut it off. On the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY? & TECHNOLOGY: Poetry in Motion

Posted on July 18, 2004 by Susan

Rain, rain, go away, Come again some other day, Little Susie needs to play outside, digging trenches. Continue reading →

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