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***
Dinner
at the diner with Dianne
was
kind of nice, no, definitely nice,
decidedly
nice, desperately, we tried
to
hold o..
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***
It would
have been better
had it
happened earlier. I
wasn't the
luckiest of fellows.
Better late
than never, comes
..
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***
It
was morning, and I was in a
thick pine forest
I’d
never seen before,
hopelessly lost, hunting
for
words and phra..
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Pedestrian
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modern American
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***
I
am the dust storm, a roiling, boiling cloud, browned
from
blocking the sun; I gave birth to homelessness -
tumbleweeds,
o..
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***
I
am a child of the Dust Bowl twice removed
from my
home, reaching, but no hand to hold.
California
coined the..
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***
At
the edge of poverty,
where
the
Spanish
speaking go
to
work the fields
as
gatherers of cashews,
brown-skinned
men and women..
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** Accepted for publication in Fall 2024 issue of Awakenings Review
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***
If
you'll just give me a minute I can explain.
I
was late getting back to the table.
The
waitress wasn't much of..
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