tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64133665015706392742024-03-10T23:23:37.545-04:00The American Friend“My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.”
― Marcel Proust
Linda Danzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01235726521836889564noreply@blogger.comBlogger513125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6413366501570639274.post-25731106308854933792024-02-24T13:49:00.000-05:002024-02-24T13:49:01.895-05:00<p> <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">WOUNDED</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 21px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUPbQhfRIAkAOM6-g9WpdbnIVkL3UnhvTG8LNFAG1uWby6IPkUoOFrLh7Ex_OvFleqqNOa52wHSbZ4LmG8pzPCXSs7pAj4Zu3wiZCKdfIg0MTt_atKp-bhWgIeklTh3F-EVtw8-iVi94PkiewwanIPFLa1o6tETzpnhNiKrWaxz0WzaFeD08aZAVhIiBUP/s2134/Self%20P4.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2134" data-original-width="1592" height="416" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUPbQhfRIAkAOM6-g9WpdbnIVkL3UnhvTG8LNFAG1uWby6IPkUoOFrLh7Ex_OvFleqqNOa52wHSbZ4LmG8pzPCXSs7pAj4Zu3wiZCKdfIg0MTt_atKp-bhWgIeklTh3F-EVtw8-iVi94PkiewwanIPFLa1o6tETzpnhNiKrWaxz0WzaFeD08aZAVhIiBUP/w311-h416/Self%20P4.jpeg" width="311" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 21px;">I’ll walk among <br />the wounded<br />not for the pain<br />but the crazy<br />what’s left on remainder<br />a membership<br />in altered states<br />where I slip behind<br />purity gates<br />I’ll walk among the wounded<br />in a private country<br />no need to undo me<br />left behind from birth<br />for what that is worth<br />again and again<br />I will favor imbalance<br />life is so messy<br />like a ruffled valance<br />in an empty room<o:p></o:p></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 21px;">what do I choose<br />I’m a fake happily<br />in a real situation<br />and then painfully<br />when confronted <br />with creation<br />how do I manage<br />a lie over and over<br />I find the ones who know<br />when to discover<br />that water flows<br />that water will save us <br />the small in the earth<br />the deep in the well<br />I won’t beg for salvation<br />in a roomful of friends<br />or strip the lead <br />from the lip<br />pull the cork from revenge<br />life is imbalance<br />what I wish for is instant<br />what i get is <br />fame naturally<br />it comes from a distance<br />like a comforting film<br />arrives like a blister<br />a gift from the sun<br />I’ll walk among wounded<br />mystery’s sister<br />make me laugh now<br />make me sinister<br />be my friend through all winters<br />bind our feet together<br />trample enemies forever<br />walk among the wounded<br />discern the trust<br />walk among us<br />light footed<br />and make no fuss<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">9.27.13<br /></span>Linda Danzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01235726521836889564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6413366501570639274.post-63902043451188401292024-02-24T12:05:00.000-05:002024-02-24T12:05:07.402-05:00<p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoHtFcOKWxCX0-dhs_uFczZ6R3dYradDNHIlb2XJ-e0z90Wmus_cJuesU5s2iJ7Px1DKriG9p-IIP04fP7Q7F6PEJ07UBoh4YSyKrq_QnrWxVHmBR589YRUvSOv6OlL6VmWAswhHVELwye3pERnvk8nKt-9lc4gLS-WYK4VAsRg4dim49RMSgPEWLzBSxt/s5184/IMG_0987.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="5184" height="336" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoHtFcOKWxCX0-dhs_uFczZ6R3dYradDNHIlb2XJ-e0z90Wmus_cJuesU5s2iJ7Px1DKriG9p-IIP04fP7Q7F6PEJ07UBoh4YSyKrq_QnrWxVHmBR589YRUvSOv6OlL6VmWAswhHVELwye3pERnvk8nKt-9lc4gLS-WYK4VAsRg4dim49RMSgPEWLzBSxt/w447-h336/IMG_0987.jpeg" width="447" /></a></div><p></p><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 21px;">ALARM</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 21px;">you have escaped <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 21px;">sound the alarm <br /><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 21px;">pass through the door<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 21px;">touch my arm<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 21px;">so I know beyond death<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 21px;">there is still a kind roar<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 21px;">nod from the afterlife<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 21px;">across celestial moors<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 21px;">wink from abroad<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 21px;">drag a chair over the floor<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 21px;">let me know that the gang<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 21px;">who have since crossed-over<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 21px;">reads books, drinks wine<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 21px;">contemplates lovers<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 21px;">touch my arm<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 21px;">catch my eye with<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 21px;">a fleet moving shadow<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 21px;">make me nervous at midnight<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 21px;">shriek a silent falsetto<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 21px;">argue mortality<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 21px;">make me sound dumb<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 21px;">give me the room<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 21px;">on my swollen tongue<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 21px;">to find words that match<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 21px;">your gracious passing<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 21px;">to stop and reflect<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 21px;">that death does the asking<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 21px;">we decide on ruckus<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 21px;">or simply respond<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 21px;">like a slow-moving duck<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 21px;">over a still life pond<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 21px;">sound the alarm<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 21px;">get me ready<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 21px;">for whatever it takes<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 21px;">while I’m here<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 21px;">while I’m living<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 21px;">the heart will break<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 21px;">into pieces that grow<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 21px;">like new limbs on a starfish <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 21px;">and just when I’ve been<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 21px;">bereft of courtship<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 21px;">opaque after bloodletting <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 21px;">drawn from my heart<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 21px;">the chair scrapes<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 21px;">and sits on a heavenly floor<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 21px;">I have a seat<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 21px;">when I’m done with my purpose<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 21px;">a slow-moving passport<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 21px;">with the ones who are there.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 21px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 21px;">2.23.12<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 21px;">nyc</span>Linda Danzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01235726521836889564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6413366501570639274.post-56533319567168894902024-01-29T00:57:00.004-05:002024-01-29T00:57:41.671-05:00<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9WEwl6Iic6SJwhpS4g6lP3xYJ5ETg0MaE2GTtZ2biNoWV4eMWDfxelYxPCITZ6Y7AQV4V9GX7Yof_QGE99vX5QXs9wzwM3zUlhEE2r0KATPtRxpW4EXFfzWlzLDGjzm7MvE2iWODH-YLDnzxm2vrrXpWJW2LLim1IuRAK1DjfGFcZ1PmwqqWt4Fe4POky/s1056/Screenshot%202024-01-24%20at%201.09.14%E2%80%AFPM%20(2).jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="757" data-original-width="1056" height="485" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9WEwl6Iic6SJwhpS4g6lP3xYJ5ETg0MaE2GTtZ2biNoWV4eMWDfxelYxPCITZ6Y7AQV4V9GX7Yof_QGE99vX5QXs9wzwM3zUlhEE2r0KATPtRxpW4EXFfzWlzLDGjzm7MvE2iWODH-YLDnzxm2vrrXpWJW2LLim1IuRAK1DjfGFcZ1PmwqqWt4Fe4POky/w679-h485/Screenshot%202024-01-24%20at%201.09.14%E2%80%AFPM%20(2).jpeg" width="679" /></a></div><br /> <span style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">She’s at the i-don’t-care stage</span><p></p><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Again</div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">It’s the middle of the night</div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Again</div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">It’s a good sign</div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">She <span style="font-family: inherit;"><a style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit;" tabindex="-1"></a></span>thinks</div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">As it always is to those </div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">who don’t fear her<br /></div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">or try to revere her</div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">It’s a good sign she thinks</div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">To those who defy her</div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">To those who remind her</div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">It’s a good sign when she’s angry</div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">A good sign when she’s cursed</div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">When the story hits a manhole</div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Like a digger </div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">It’s better for the worst</div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Whatever that means in </div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Her female desert of freeze-dried tears</div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">She’s at the i-don’t care stage</div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Possibly for years of a rage</div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">For what she has left on the shelf</div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">It’s the middle of the night</div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Again</div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">It’s a good sign</div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">She thinks</div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">To go for a run</div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">In her dreams<br /></div>Linda Danzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01235726521836889564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6413366501570639274.post-68333529544528445772024-01-23T23:39:00.007-05:002024-01-23T23:42:13.633-05:00<p> </p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5XYB2Tt2SdCXLA-PoO2hA-tIAT_dO9YNFfyYSCcqoyTnY6NtNHjiC94AEREo_D3PhzflPo1VDFm2Kylgd3mrYr3r9SS2Doe23Q9_57l6LWvmjZXT6oCFLMV77JRhC2DwJpda8_zZjOCFNBSNksUOcxcMAGa5m93luDAo-1ULVzECqbjNocRh5yIKr7NOT/s2048/421442850_10223440215425239_8810647410996792423_n.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="503" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5XYB2Tt2SdCXLA-PoO2hA-tIAT_dO9YNFfyYSCcqoyTnY6NtNHjiC94AEREo_D3PhzflPo1VDFm2Kylgd3mrYr3r9SS2Doe23Q9_57l6LWvmjZXT6oCFLMV77JRhC2DwJpda8_zZjOCFNBSNksUOcxcMAGa5m93luDAo-1ULVzECqbjNocRh5yIKr7NOT/w671-h503/421442850_10223440215425239_8810647410996792423_n.jpg" width="671" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Smokin’ Willy’s Weed</span></span></p><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; orphans: 2; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Goes down easily</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Teasily</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Unforgiveably reasonably</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; orphans: 2; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer;" tabindex="-1"></a>Grateful for the friend who delivers</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">De letter de sooner</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">De better</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Message well-earned from</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Lightning circumstance</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Opening the poetical nerve of those that hate us</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Who tolerate our presence</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I am honored again</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I am hungry and fateless</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I am older and maceless</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Because if you want to undermine</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Do it like lemon rinds </span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">begging a bluebird</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Until the surprise rings explosive</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Then you know you have told this story before.</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">And nobody died.</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Nobody came before.</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Nobody died in this nobody war.</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; orphans: 2; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Smokin’ Willy’s weed just like before.</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Painted on cave walls</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Destroyed by wars</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Grateful for the friend who delivers</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">What goes down easily</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Reviles beastiality and the </span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Slow thrust of rivers</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Destroyed by war</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Grateful for the no end of endings </span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Begging a squirrel to monitor sendings</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Of good will and happily ever afters</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; orphans: 2; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Grateful for the fuckers who discovered the boardwalk</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The underneath</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The choking remark</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">On the failure of boy and girl</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Grateful for the no end of endings </span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Begging a squirrel to monitor sendings</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Of good will and happily ever afters</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Grateful as fuck with no nod to pretension</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">No unreliable mention of war</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">She seeks a slower less angrier pace</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Squirrels on call to keep the peace</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; orphans: 2; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I am fucking lonely she wails</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">To no one in place</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; orphans: 2; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I am sack cloth and ashes</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I am no ones disgrace</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I am older and thinner and historically sound</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I am you with your arms wrapped around </span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">My complacency</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; orphans: 2; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">For now until I run the race of me.</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Smokin’ Willy’s Weed</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; orphans: 2; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Goes down easily</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Teasily</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Unforgiveably reasonably</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">nyc 1.22.24</span></div></div>Linda Danzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01235726521836889564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6413366501570639274.post-88947223253944673662024-01-03T17:19:00.001-05:002024-01-03T17:19:20.935-05:00<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioTrwzJsEC1brAmsdh0fx6R3xaGNQXh-2ne1BHHnhblTSirCGCdEE7WvPRI7hJrn_DQjRDO2MRWxy8WBwgv2Ji_WGWD_AiN9tLc10FhfPAuMAbH0qB9Yq1Hq3P-FO_PTp6NTML848qVoP3hlx8KgOMSY-IZ3TzLFTgJNwKH8xo6c2ToajngeDx4_Y1U4eq/s5021/IMG_3834.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5021" data-original-width="3180" height="634" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioTrwzJsEC1brAmsdh0fx6R3xaGNQXh-2ne1BHHnhblTSirCGCdEE7WvPRI7hJrn_DQjRDO2MRWxy8WBwgv2Ji_WGWD_AiN9tLc10FhfPAuMAbH0qB9Yq1Hq3P-FO_PTp6NTML848qVoP3hlx8KgOMSY-IZ3TzLFTgJNwKH8xo6c2ToajngeDx4_Y1U4eq/w402-h634/IMG_3834.jpeg" width="402" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">It’s time to write a poem she said<o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Opened front doors forecast dread<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Still lighter than a darksome home<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Pecking naive transformation<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Wounded like a crossing guard<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">She bangs her chest in absolution<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">What about this fucking poem<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">She screams in flightless fury<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Searching for the nowhere compass<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Redirecting dreams unknown<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Her small arms reach familiar height<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Leaves bloodied reason in the lane<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The child becomes the ageless poet<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Picks off attackers in lyric refrain<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Never to set false hearts alight<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Mustering truth among the shards<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Re-made from broken arrows shot<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">She bangs her chest again with conviction<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Renounces steps from false Camelot<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Humored forever she follows intention<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Escaping from the thumbless bard<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Kneels and pries her uncorked anger<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">From a fully loaded glass of wine<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The bag of lies they offered her<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Full of listless danger tricks<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Transparent as their unsound friendship<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Returned forever their shipment of lies<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">A poem arrives a welcome sign<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Dropping words in her once barren lap<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">A prayer to the end of everything<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Depends on the sender<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">And the poet who believes <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Fully christened urges to rend <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Clarified fury on liars and thieves<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">She pens in silence her atheist prayers <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">In a rarefied notebook to pain<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">They will force her inner child exposed<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">In their foul-smelling bunker of lies<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Slowly invading the song of the poet<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Wallowing then in spineless endurance<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Like lice in the hair or cancerous starlings <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">She paws the earth a misread boar <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Transitioned out of unbending fury<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Front door knocker heralds dread<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Winged doves arrive instead<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">It’s time to write a poem she said<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: start;">nyc<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: start;">1.3.23<o:p></o:p></p></div><p><br /></p>Linda Danzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01235726521836889564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6413366501570639274.post-15797726678525195082023-12-11T01:02:00.000-05:002023-12-11T01:02:09.718-05:00<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF_g1ZOQs389_kZNTJpBlTIRqJZAV4pa82G4JtWaWhKU7HHhP_GKHHRZCrSpNy72ENwOHqx1h_z_vIcG86xiYYM-yBvB7PMaMVtP095EhmEsmLuO96pbcuPp65zeorKYB9ahbiR1lhQ80eNCJ4S3gwLv5FyD5uTiETQzlWhcXjFgvoPDy9uXlyWohjT0_O/s5184/IMG_2340%20(1).jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="5184" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF_g1ZOQs389_kZNTJpBlTIRqJZAV4pa82G4JtWaWhKU7HHhP_GKHHRZCrSpNy72ENwOHqx1h_z_vIcG86xiYYM-yBvB7PMaMVtP095EhmEsmLuO96pbcuPp65zeorKYB9ahbiR1lhQ80eNCJ4S3gwLv5FyD5uTiETQzlWhcXjFgvoPDy9uXlyWohjT0_O/w512-h384/IMG_2340%20(1).jpeg" width="512" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">she was once his father’s lover </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"><span style="background: white;">rendered in a portrait unseen</span><br /><span style="background: white;">nights like these</span><br /><span style="background: white;">late and inky and full of spleen</span><br /><span style="background: white;">she remembers frothy beginnings</span><br /><span style="background: white;">she remembers the barbed wire ends</span><br /><span style="background: white;">how distance will grow like mold on a tree</span><br /><span style="background: white;">when she is expected to</span><br /><span style="background: white;">remember free</span><br /><span style="background: white;">when she has ejected false memory </span><br /><span style="background: white;">it arrives like a low-lying hawk in flight</span><br /><span style="background: white;">how she took the boy to Coney on</span><br /><span style="background: white;">the pirate ship ride</span><br /><span style="background: white;">when he was smaller than she</span><br /><span style="background: white;">childlike, eternal, funneled and frightened </span><br /><span style="background: white;">the fearful mother</span><br /><span style="background: white;">what each woman is certain</span><br /><span style="background: white;">she will always know</span><br /><span style="background: white;">no matter the clutter of sons and daughters</span><br /><span style="background: white;">or nothing to show</span><br /><span style="background: white;">he was her son, her pirate in tow</span><br /><span style="background: white;">until trapped like rats on a towering stage</span><br /><span style="background: white;">she bellowed her anger</span><br /><span style="background: white;">the two of them caged</span><br /><span style="background: white;">take us down</span><br /><span style="background: white;">take us down</span><br /><span style="background: white;">she shouted from heights</span><br /><span style="background: white;">a long silent ride from the island of mirth</span><br /><span style="background: white;">that night in her rooms when they fell down to earth</span><br /><span style="background: white;">together forever for what is worth</span><br /><span style="background: white;">still determined he said</span><br /><span style="background: white;">that grown up child of dissent</span><br /><span style="background: white;">back to the past’s reality berth</span><br /><span style="background: white;">but I am still determined he said to see you at your convenience </span><br /><span style="background: white;">let me know when, she said</span><br /><span style="background: white;">let me know when it will work<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="background: white; color: #050505; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="background: white; color: #050505; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">8.20.22</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="background: white; color: #050505; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">nyc </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>Linda Danzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01235726521836889564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6413366501570639274.post-26440167869463860362023-10-24T23:54:00.008-04:002023-10-24T23:56:37.906-04:00<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDNHMgAhQs02kgkBLWB48CNP-6UqlFM26gsQinncFnGgmL0QpO19bnYgS9vvd46KRvoYq3gxIhBVuRRpYagHX_7J9jMZcnqRQk1jKz4yL8VpGzfPOig8Sljn85HOLo9kfrJcgIEPFOXJR31ycFLBIbbF-U1GXegUKq5a0hoqhyphenhyphen66K7M4AHNIwCxkMxsUpp/s5184/IMG_2554.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="5184" height="375" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDNHMgAhQs02kgkBLWB48CNP-6UqlFM26gsQinncFnGgmL0QpO19bnYgS9vvd46KRvoYq3gxIhBVuRRpYagHX_7J9jMZcnqRQk1jKz4yL8VpGzfPOig8Sljn85HOLo9kfrJcgIEPFOXJR31ycFLBIbbF-U1GXegUKq5a0hoqhyphenhyphen66K7M4AHNIwCxkMxsUpp/w499-h375/IMG_2554.jpeg" width="499" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><div class="xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">reservoir dreaming</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">answers lie deeper than time</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">waving not drowning</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; orphans: 2; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">nyc 10.24.23</div></div>Linda Danzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01235726521836889564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6413366501570639274.post-68401154463576715452023-10-03T00:05:00.005-04:002023-10-03T00:22:04.603-04:00<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEha9tzuCG2tGNPKQzq7TXKcXgEsQW3MaSaZ3fD1L6TJOlaatWbqx79VmMzI5zLU9aeUhL2hhExbq0wT8Kl14gB0dXPYt0ZygL_MCFPSxbhpPluycTkKZgIcBFuPSX-NxGJrgAhanND-x_y4yQQViq9k0jIQeIde4QWJTK00ukdWz23LrAoESIIjyNnCYIIg/s4032/IMG_8891.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="465" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEha9tzuCG2tGNPKQzq7TXKcXgEsQW3MaSaZ3fD1L6TJOlaatWbqx79VmMzI5zLU9aeUhL2hhExbq0wT8Kl14gB0dXPYt0ZygL_MCFPSxbhpPluycTkKZgIcBFuPSX-NxGJrgAhanND-x_y4yQQViq9k0jIQeIde4QWJTK00ukdWz23LrAoESIIjyNnCYIIg/w620-h465/IMG_8891.jpeg" width="620" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.2in;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.2in;"><span face=""Gill Sans MT", sans-serif">unbelonging<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.2in;"><span face=""Gill Sans MT", sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.2in;"><span face=""Gill Sans MT", sans-serif">are you writing?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.2in;"><span face=""Gill Sans MT", sans-serif">yes, and you?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.2in;"><span face=""Gill Sans MT", sans-serif">I am, she said. How slowly is another story. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.2in;"><span face=""Gill Sans MT", sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.2in;"><span face=""Gill Sans MT", sans-serif">it’s only broken glass and bullet holes<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.2in;"><span face=""Gill Sans MT", sans-serif">strewn across an asphalt jungle<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.2in;"><span face=""Gill Sans MT", sans-serif">bitter news of current wars<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.2in;"><span face=""Gill Sans MT", sans-serif">set upon by broken crows<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.2in;"><span face=""Gill Sans MT", sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.2in;"><span face=""Gill Sans MT", sans-serif">unbelonging requires maps in multitudes<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.2in;"><span face=""Gill Sans MT", sans-serif">language shrill or under wraps <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.2in;"><span face=""Gill Sans MT", sans-serif">the cunts who laugh at all the fuss<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.2in;"><span face=""Gill Sans MT", sans-serif">cleaning up comes after us<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.2in;"><span face=""Gill Sans MT", sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.2in;"><span face=""Gill Sans MT", sans-serif">she likes her tea in a bath underwater<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.2in;"><span face=""Gill Sans MT", sans-serif">terrorists will sometimes surround her<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.2in;"><span face=""Gill Sans MT", sans-serif">content must be bigger than form<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.2in;"><span face=""Gill Sans MT", sans-serif">now that the dark gets in<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.2in;"><span face=""Gill Sans MT", sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.2in;"><span face=""Gill Sans MT", sans-serif">there are things I think I don’t want to know<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.2in;"><span face=""Gill Sans MT", sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.2in;"><span face=""Gill Sans MT", sans-serif">are you writing?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.2in;"><span face=""Gill Sans MT", sans-serif">yes, and you?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.2in;"><span face=""Gill Sans MT", sans-serif">I am, she said. How slowly is another story. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.2in;"><span face=""Gill Sans MT", sans-serif"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24px; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.2in;"><span face="Gill Sans MT, sans-serif">nyc 10.3.23</span></p></div><p><br /> </p>Linda Danzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01235726521836889564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6413366501570639274.post-8452638401059989512023-07-14T00:23:00.000-04:002023-07-14T00:23:03.917-04:00<p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwQhrLOLCj49EvdFJUpsY4aUQkHLS4MUSnSFB35oDiA8hrix3rfaRhG2GJpUadEGSPqEe4CNgCCNjRDPHyiIqbKEYAY51l3q8TO40_zUEvEazbIw4FZbpVlF6xfSpWPZsC1Xx9mkjzboZdnJMP8n1mAjlKLtu9XUr8T7rnnAgUWsk2dKqAU_owS4AAbQHn/s5184/IMG_1252.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="5184" height="512" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwQhrLOLCj49EvdFJUpsY4aUQkHLS4MUSnSFB35oDiA8hrix3rfaRhG2GJpUadEGSPqEe4CNgCCNjRDPHyiIqbKEYAY51l3q8TO40_zUEvEazbIw4FZbpVlF6xfSpWPZsC1Xx9mkjzboZdnJMP8n1mAjlKLtu9XUr8T7rnnAgUWsk2dKqAU_owS4AAbQHn/w682-h512/IMG_1252.jpeg" width="682" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">flame</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">she’s a self-igniting moth<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">has been since fire was invented<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">gone up in flames <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">only slower<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">than orange-robed men<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">lit a crowded town square<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">faster than a slow succession<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">she’s the open-hearted wrath<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">has been since no wars have ended<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">drowned by the noise<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">only louder<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">when frenzied birds laugh<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">under lamp post despair<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">louder than a bishop’s blessing <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">she’s the best of sweet relief<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">has been since a rogue placenta<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">flooded with grief<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">sailing under<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">where embryos flew<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">across deserts mid-air<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">destined for the deepest cave-in<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">she’s the cover under dark<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">has been since a fresh reminder<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">pigeon-holed note<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">on a window<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">where harmed mothers clucked<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">over eggs that will never be raised.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">nyc 7.14.23 </span><o:p></o:p></p>Linda Danzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01235726521836889564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6413366501570639274.post-20449224367241683272023-04-06T00:43:00.001-04:002023-04-06T00:43:21.309-04:00<p> <span style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD_NngmJ69c7GaLk0Gyvo_eE50WAui21twuRC2s_VlEIrh_7WVHHh_YkT1-wAaKA3SNJBpKYQXbYhd7xb6exRXMEz6RYjIqUOVlu4-K0unIkxyro8tT-Ap8o2ns5Y3KVp9dz0XV2RTWjzWUwmBnLYpX0DzhTKQoJ4VDauRurW51YMm1LPRNPGkiDPxmw/s5184/IMG_0022.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="5184" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD_NngmJ69c7GaLk0Gyvo_eE50WAui21twuRC2s_VlEIrh_7WVHHh_YkT1-wAaKA3SNJBpKYQXbYhd7xb6exRXMEz6RYjIqUOVlu4-K0unIkxyro8tT-Ap8o2ns5Y3KVp9dz0XV2RTWjzWUwmBnLYpX0DzhTKQoJ4VDauRurW51YMm1LPRNPGkiDPxmw/s320/IMG_0022.jpeg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />Sissyphuss</span><p></p><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia;">She has herself a little cry</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Not one to flail like a fully opened lotus</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia;">You know those</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer;" tabindex="-1"></a>Blossom bombs that float like scum on a pond</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia;">You know the</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Messages implied in the end you are done</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Crying</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Absolving,</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Redrawing</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia;">And crawling from</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The craters of ignorance</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The sewers of romance</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Those untidy typos in ransom notes</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia;">She has herself a little cry</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Amp turned up high in a freshly watered silence</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia;">You know those</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Welcome sounds see regret at a second glance</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia;">You know the </span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Floundering denied in the race to be won</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Sighing</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Resolving</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Deploying</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia;">And landing on</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The haters of ignorance</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The matters of romance</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Those untidy typos in ransom notes</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia;">She has herself a little cry</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Flight-blinded soul when the story is expanded</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia;">You know those</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Wounded beats on the pulse of romance</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia;">You Know</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Lapping</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Un-trapping</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Rejoining</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia;">To the bloody limb</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The haters of ignorance</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The matters of romance</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Those untidy typos in ransom notes</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Leftover wars</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia;">In fields unsown</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Apologies gone to ruin</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia;">mothers we bemoan</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia;">everything that’s always been </span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia;">everything hidden</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia;">amidst history in luxurious linen</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The fucking aimless at the nonetheless stage </span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The Bidden</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia;">And the unforgiven</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The haters of ignorance</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The matters of romance</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Those untidy typos in ransom notes</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia;">nyc 4.6.23</span></div></div>Linda Danzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01235726521836889564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6413366501570639274.post-40670173730788258762022-09-09T00:28:00.004-04:002023-10-31T21:13:03.034-04:00<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTZty2CnkiGbU55IEhetkeEUnPrL3hZBWp144roJldHq9wDPso7VVt_cX0gzcHqf0aEPhI7bXKtcAFfOQvhbIWAhPZ8019wS8r0r-EOZrD4H4rbM0TpGVW4dBZo_yppZ2zU3BUWpJPhdmXxgbav3p-pVo98gHiXwFRmZL7bQZVTdr65zOZ2NR6PVYnaQ/s960/IMG_6640.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Plate</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">On the plate before me<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I am the world’s worst daughter<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">On the plate before me<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Familial slaughter<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">On the plate before me<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Lies the meatless mutter<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Of dissidents and kings of discernible means<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">On the plate before me<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">No chicken just greens<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">On the plate before me<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">On the plate before me<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><o:p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">On the plate before me<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I am a late blooming human<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">On the plate before me<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Quietly stewing<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">On the plate before me<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Remains of another<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">A mindful blending of the cold hard truth<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">On the plate before me<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The fibrous root<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">On the plate before me<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">On the plate before me<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><o:p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">On the plate before me<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I am as old as the planet<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">On the plate before me<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">A life’s been well done<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">On the plate before me<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">fragments of the road rage<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Left begging until there is full sun<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">On the plate before me<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The map in hand<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">On the plate before me<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">On the plate before me<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><o:p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Isn’t life grand<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><o:p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">On the plate before me<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">On the plate before me<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><o:p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Nyc 9.9.22</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTZty2CnkiGbU55IEhetkeEUnPrL3hZBWp144roJldHq9wDPso7VVt_cX0gzcHqf0aEPhI7bXKtcAFfOQvhbIWAhPZ8019wS8r0r-EOZrD4H4rbM0TpGVW4dBZo_yppZ2zU3BUWpJPhdmXxgbav3p-pVo98gHiXwFRmZL7bQZVTdr65zOZ2NR6PVYnaQ/s960/IMG_6640.jpg" style="clear: left; font-family: -webkit-standard; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="960" height="643" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTZty2CnkiGbU55IEhetkeEUnPrL3hZBWp144roJldHq9wDPso7VVt_cX0gzcHqf0aEPhI7bXKtcAFfOQvhbIWAhPZ8019wS8r0r-EOZrD4H4rbM0TpGVW4dBZo_yppZ2zU3BUWpJPhdmXxgbav3p-pVo98gHiXwFRmZL7bQZVTdr65zOZ2NR6PVYnaQ/w643-h643/IMG_6640.jpg" width="643" /></a></span></p>Linda Danzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01235726521836889564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6413366501570639274.post-34450282122973861352022-08-20T00:26:00.010-04:002022-08-20T10:43:50.735-04:00<p></p><br /> <p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTRn-EwNd0O2954sbCRgPqDXNmttfxEL-dJuRvsiiSiOMhT-Dk0FAzVzHpJNHJ4PXVATQeF-LxzOfB-h5065_j-wLnW4TLHu_aI_4EuLVUF3aXBp7nkVe0E4VEMxUeq1122BOu8BF-FcRRlfjYNLr09brnc-yHppZRyD_CuTpJhkqXERaGRd9dvXHISw/s1649/10496904_10202421348486702_3288466647499863460_o.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1363" data-original-width="1649" height="331" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTRn-EwNd0O2954sbCRgPqDXNmttfxEL-dJuRvsiiSiOMhT-Dk0FAzVzHpJNHJ4PXVATQeF-LxzOfB-h5065_j-wLnW4TLHu_aI_4EuLVUF3aXBp7nkVe0E4VEMxUeq1122BOu8BF-FcRRlfjYNLr09brnc-yHppZRyD_CuTpJhkqXERaGRd9dvXHISw/w400-h331/10496904_10202421348486702_3288466647499863460_o.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">She was once his father’s lover <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Rendered in a portrait unseen<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Nights like these<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Late and inky and full of spleen<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">She remembers the frothy beginnings<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">She remembers the barbed wire ends<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">How distance will grow like mold on a tree<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">When she is expected to<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Remember free<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">when she has ejected false memory <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">It arrives like a low-flying hawk in flight<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">How she took the boy to Coney on<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The pirate ship ride<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">When he was smaller than she<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Childlike, eternal, funneled and frightened <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">the fearful mother<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">What each woman is certain<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">She will always know<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">No matter the clutter of sons and daughters<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Or nothing to show<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">He was her son, her pirate in tow<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Until trapped like rats on a towering cage<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">She bellowed her anger<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The two of them caged<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Take us down<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Take us down<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">She shouted on high<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">A long silent ride from the island of mirth<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">That night in her rooms when they fell down to earth<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Together forever for what is worth<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Still determined he said<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">That grown up child of dissent<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Back to the past’s reality berth<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="background-color: #e4e6eb; color: #050505; font-family: Garamond, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">But I am still determined he said to see you at your convenience, <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="background-color: #e4e6eb; color: #050505; font-family: Garamond, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Let me know when, she said<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="background-color: #e4e6eb; color: #050505; font-family: Garamond, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Let me know when it will work</span></span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>Linda Danzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01235726521836889564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6413366501570639274.post-12746196300680868472022-08-05T22:55:00.002-04:002022-08-05T22:55:15.035-04:00<p> <br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVtDEL1AcVtnQdKkiTzYbMNnrO6vhvZr1sTmytyApuCsFbmoaeVyB-JDqbz-x06UcSAuqMpSJoW4Zb9N5Rd9XxUzZl5X57B0-uyIAZXvAsxq9O8DUeZTduMtCgC9GVweRyj1YxX1g9zdULHa1NrCOrmHQgNf8skUfIcdj7OddnMDGfFHq4rRivD7wWOA/s2481/IMG_6457.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2481" data-original-width="1971" height="559" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVtDEL1AcVtnQdKkiTzYbMNnrO6vhvZr1sTmytyApuCsFbmoaeVyB-JDqbz-x06UcSAuqMpSJoW4Zb9N5Rd9XxUzZl5X57B0-uyIAZXvAsxq9O8DUeZTduMtCgC9GVweRyj1YxX1g9zdULHa1NrCOrmHQgNf8skUfIcdj7OddnMDGfFHq4rRivD7wWOA/w444-h559/IMG_6457.jpg" width="444" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><p></p><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">he follows the path</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">in unquiet memory</div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">what wins is the song</div></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><p></p>Linda Danzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01235726521836889564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6413366501570639274.post-8909162405540125282022-06-09T22:24:00.003-04:002022-06-09T22:24:50.297-04:00<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWm_e2mKO5RV_nvb6JIwwP-YHD0l-snzKxJ6OudnaLtUXZ0fkq86tUkUw_udvsZgbd6RRWLkbUlMagatbUOgX5T4RjUy4nspckhx1_FUyRQ2FcKLWMUp2y442PUrfdqifx2BT5ajoG42L3j2w6NM-K4XmhHjv5iS4I3BrjhbckzzQUQ3Zp-kNvdQ5fAg/s720/10857290_1026157624064380_210853328012273558_o.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="720" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWm_e2mKO5RV_nvb6JIwwP-YHD0l-snzKxJ6OudnaLtUXZ0fkq86tUkUw_udvsZgbd6RRWLkbUlMagatbUOgX5T4RjUy4nspckhx1_FUyRQ2FcKLWMUp2y442PUrfdqifx2BT5ajoG42L3j2w6NM-K4XmhHjv5iS4I3BrjhbckzzQUQ3Zp-kNvdQ5fAg/w400-h300/10857290_1026157624064380_210853328012273558_o.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /> <span style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Review of "A Birdhouse in Brooklyn" by Katherine Howey, UK</span><p></p><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Danz’s novel presents a seldom-seen view of life for ordinary New Yorkers in the aftermath of 9/11. She exposes the repercussions of the event on lives affected by the relocation caused by toxic waste, the increased security measures implemented by the government and the emotional scarring of citizens traumatised by terrorism. Her lively yet nuanced portraits of characters struggling for self-realisation in the face of monolithic corporate culture and the social, economic and political tensions entrapping them are moving and memorable.</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"> Lucy and Vincent; Shawn, Alex and Carlos; Jason and Carina strive to realise their artistic and musical talent, whilst negotiating their sexual and cultural orientations in this polyglot world. Manhattan and Brooklyn are being swamped in urban sterility. The bird houses represent both the embracing of and protest against the citification of wildlife as capitalism steams on smashing everything in its path. Ideologies clash and the voice of the ordinary citizen, of reason and alternative views of why these events occurred, seems like a cry in the desert. Shawn, dealing with abandonment, parenthood and the spectre of aids frenetically recycles junk to make works of art whilst Jason seeks to justify his own vision through his graffiti protest. Lucy transforms herself from journalistic wage slave to a writer of integrity, recording and staying true to her values by helping the vulnerable and illiterate, instead of returning to the falsity of the corporate world.</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">As a native New Yorker, Danz sites her story in the history of this great city and records its changes as it moves between eras. From the social housing projects of the 1950s with their immigrant populations, independent retail grocery stores and industrial power plants, the narrative changes to show the invasion of the city by giant condos in the early 2000’s and the proliferation of high-end stores driving out the natives with their appeal to tourism.</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Her characters flourish like wild flowers between the cracks of corporate culture, living lives which are of far cry from the polished media images of global capitalism. Their struggles show that the “little people” are not little at all but heroic. 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While she was eating the male went to the nest twice. Then they both returned to the nest, before making a trip to the top of the Ritz-Carton together. The female then returned to the nest. This all took about ten minutes. “<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">getting ever closer to nature<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">taking over <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">begs the question of what will endure<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">under cover<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">standing always under the upstage <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">when the limelight<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">hauls the daylight to what will come next<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">madness alone<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">bullet-proof eating of carrion enraged <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">sailing wonder<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">to the tower of undefined wrecks<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">heartbeats undone<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgox7st_mqLbZOIPjDEKU_ZF7-_HmOAY8QGTo1iyxZnHbQx8vmlcJbiAd6Odesoa0K9kTMNrTGXaOBDYu8vFfGoZ6U_ZKsTYxxjMvJTL5_XeLuQPOTLdmHCcGy3zpI3gHvl2qA4hxTyUvThLgxom_lno-SQNehA4QTza6OxrSmXXVrtMibLggIcLtkBqQ/s5184/IMG_4770.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; 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text-align: left;"><br /></span></div>w<span style="font-size: medium;">hen she happened upon joe frank on the uptown local late one night</span></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">fractured route to undeserved blame<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">anti-personal bombs<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">like she’s seen all her life<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">in a sly way intended<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">like the wedding cake greets the knife<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">those bits of her that have been bloodied<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">what parts have been rendered<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">do they reek unhurried<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">salt among the scented <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">on a late-night uptown train<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">she tested the field phone inside her<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">it held off guerillas<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">it fined the decriers<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">she asked for and got the nothing <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">programmed like all the others<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">now seated across from her<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">apart from the others’ fur she was<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">wrapped in chancy sentimental<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">a list of liars in his back pocket<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">smelled of caution and secretive black light <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">she saw him before the brain kicked in<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">his playbill rolled into undone<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">she, the spymaster was rigid with won<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">across the aisle of not fun<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">she on her own across the aisle <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">recognizable mentor<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">his wife his savior his partner who knew<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">when she was sudden and leaden and undiscovered<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">basement-level of her own invention<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">imagine how hard it was to reign in<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">crazy to tell him he grew her<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">when the fresh eggs you are given<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">drop into your open palm<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">wash your hands it could kill you<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">or make you sing psalms<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">for the birth of anything animal or mineral<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">the thing humans crave are subliminal<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">she saw him on the uptown train<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">coming back from nothing remotely insane<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">what we have is embedded discovery<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">she shouts headless and crazed<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">no voice no sound<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">she recovers her ignorant gaze<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">he lowered his head undiscovered by her<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">playbill in hand<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">crazy to tell her he knew<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">3.15.22 nyc</span><o:p></o:p></p>Linda Danzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01235726521836889564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6413366501570639274.post-13436119617059721882022-02-25T00:18:00.002-05:002022-02-25T11:29:36.637-05:00<p><br /> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi00xwQuAqSshYF6jF-7r7j3zxkvm9Un_gcCP2h71HwcaS9plB5u66i_ncGWSmEheRZFN_G8LKYZZjkujwi5YaXJSUjacfohL_Wecw6EsfSjTpl3yEbktUllXqhKwpFw_JiSDKBTQsSZlW3cDBir_PkRGbRgsey39Jtl3MBsvrF7KqEiXxx5IjsMK6tiQ=s480" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="428" data-original-width="480" height="398" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi00xwQuAqSshYF6jF-7r7j3zxkvm9Un_gcCP2h71HwcaS9plB5u66i_ncGWSmEheRZFN_G8LKYZZjkujwi5YaXJSUjacfohL_Wecw6EsfSjTpl3yEbktUllXqhKwpFw_JiSDKBTQsSZlW3cDBir_PkRGbRgsey39Jtl3MBsvrF7KqEiXxx5IjsMK6tiQ=w448-h398" width="448" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="text-align: left;"><div class="kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">What is fun early on</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Makes no difference in the long run</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">How the story is unfolded</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Creased and bent and undercover</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Makes no difference in the long run</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">When the bastards scythe the clover</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">What was done early on</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Pulling dragons from the sea scum</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Knowing what she had to call it</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Gardening stoned underwater</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Trailing steps along the border</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Footfall knows just where to run</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">What becomes then the norm</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">felines declawed of their protest</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">friendship up for chance renewal</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">what was fun in distant autumn</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">never fails to fail the test</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">cat or child the story’s done</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">What becomes then is the norm…</div></div></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Linda Danzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01235726521836889564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6413366501570639274.post-50865082858246892662022-02-10T00:14:00.002-05:002022-02-10T00:14:44.749-05:00<p> </p><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">everything evolves</div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">surfacing indifference</div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">even compassion</div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Paris.Notre Dame<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhYON39xKEMoGgWCS2wn1wO1cl6F622Myd6_leaZkdw8uAboJxDL2NyFjyO4jJGDznkN6yh9eSYBpHc0M4cnW6933nLatrAC6ebPRIq5KYpAiL8YDSCvOzF78vQFfRN0w1zTva9u3vNk4gBcW5ljVRRDbHU_X1giBIQgD6y2kl9d0ZSCdt5H3-zqmIhOg=s780" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="780" data-original-width="572" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhYON39xKEMoGgWCS2wn1wO1cl6F622Myd6_leaZkdw8uAboJxDL2NyFjyO4jJGDznkN6yh9eSYBpHc0M4cnW6933nLatrAC6ebPRIq5KYpAiL8YDSCvOzF78vQFfRN0w1zTva9u3vNk4gBcW5ljVRRDbHU_X1giBIQgD6y2kl9d0ZSCdt5H3-zqmIhOg=s320" width="235" /></a></div><br /></div>Linda Danzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01235726521836889564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6413366501570639274.post-13063053374261025942022-01-21T01:10:00.003-05:002022-01-21T01:10:22.397-05:00<p> </p><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">she sleeps unaware</div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">like the owl stalking the mouse</div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">mostly with respect</div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiITWinhgoiUr1qyoH2e1w2qEQBidJ0atEG8ZRmi7uPGdbiStNE9P6oEDXNCV1F24JYgT-vu6lCMW7e4ThxurXK8uARPQcGD96AG3l7pVPUjQ71RCPBt7rpa7J1QGmkRKTa2L7AbZ99iMYaIBcwafWtRtZuIMbBhSGL7I9jbzOzBRnVNKy3VBtgHUvPwQ=s5184" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="5184" height="405" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiITWinhgoiUr1qyoH2e1w2qEQBidJ0atEG8ZRmi7uPGdbiStNE9P6oEDXNCV1F24JYgT-vu6lCMW7e4ThxurXK8uARPQcGD96AG3l7pVPUjQ71RCPBt7rpa7J1QGmkRKTa2L7AbZ99iMYaIBcwafWtRtZuIMbBhSGL7I9jbzOzBRnVNKy3VBtgHUvPwQ=w539-h405" width="539" /></a></div><br /><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></div>Linda Danzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01235726521836889564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6413366501570639274.post-44302329980208213772022-01-04T23:42:00.004-05:002022-01-04T23:43:45.325-05:00<p></p><br /><br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhhsRpBdbgYwSV41jeFlv2AZ8v6TXLDMMmOQOvEYEfnNiVolfZF5W2U4bASm-AB5AR8l9NQH7rWclc6MhA9j5UfAY220LMouj6T3yNvC0Wz1Vm6XrFM3hLhELjdM4xkRLVOXOtuAKwdvZ5aowmX8UywIi-zExQsrwC0pNIHp7lkQwt2I8Q2i3ezKefaAg=s4032" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="288" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhhsRpBdbgYwSV41jeFlv2AZ8v6TXLDMMmOQOvEYEfnNiVolfZF5W2U4bASm-AB5AR8l9NQH7rWclc6MhA9j5UfAY220LMouj6T3yNvC0Wz1Vm6XrFM3hLhELjdM4xkRLVOXOtuAKwdvZ5aowmX8UywIi-zExQsrwC0pNIHp7lkQwt2I8Q2i3ezKefaAg=w384-h288" width="384" /></a></div><p></p><p>like a dull question</p><p>furrowed under the answer</p><p>it might still explode</p>Linda Danzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01235726521836889564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6413366501570639274.post-12343345589830200932021-12-17T00:14:00.000-05:002021-12-17T00:14:01.799-05:00<p><br /> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg3r8Q2gde7o3QAmBqeMp8ManpSSmSf6v7Vl8EJTsOXEsRHXbE8Bdrr9Dkq0rDdcOw8ksHNbJHUeMvMn_rjVJSp5ACSzHpanDM53-Gu-UEPpwwxiqee04GGJ1D2HnO6xxYRrYq9tGwrnWa2LQkqqDYlG3J7fVSY-4EDt3fLrCO6cWyyGm1WLUe90bWW6g=s4701" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4701" data-original-width="3405" height="632" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg3r8Q2gde7o3QAmBqeMp8ManpSSmSf6v7Vl8EJTsOXEsRHXbE8Bdrr9Dkq0rDdcOw8ksHNbJHUeMvMn_rjVJSp5ACSzHpanDM53-Gu-UEPpwwxiqee04GGJ1D2HnO6xxYRrYq9tGwrnWa2LQkqqDYlG3J7fVSY-4EDt3fLrCO6cWyyGm1WLUe90bWW6g=w458-h632" width="458" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><p></p><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">she tilts in a way</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">similar to majesty</span></div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">it comes down to this</span></div></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p>Linda Danzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01235726521836889564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6413366501570639274.post-77736553847429299932021-12-09T01:00:00.002-05:002021-12-09T20:25:48.367-05:00<p> </p><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy86KNd6XlnQFn0lKTBXMuC6PV9AuQYM1z2Vybm-6eYunxRIdSzvURb7XI3UeqK7GkiTbH90pLWVpe8oxfrGqZBV629rH7fJpBUP5aBVAxPIedgHQysQB7wwRABirchBjDNzvKoE_rCB4C/s2048/IMG_3385.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1490" height="490" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy86KNd6XlnQFn0lKTBXMuC6PV9AuQYM1z2Vybm-6eYunxRIdSzvURb7XI3UeqK7GkiTbH90pLWVpe8oxfrGqZBV629rH7fJpBUP5aBVAxPIedgHQysQB7wwRABirchBjDNzvKoE_rCB4C/w357-h490/IMG_3385.jpg" width="357" /></a></div></div><div dir="auto"><p style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: -webkit-standard; white-space: normal;"><br /></p><div class="kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="margin: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia;">therein lies a marvelous horrible</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia;">giddy and sorrowful</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia;">a timeline guiltless betrayal</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia;">when something great happens</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia;">in the most terrible places</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia;">I don’t mean to sound simple</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia;">to beg attention to rhyme</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia;">who wins those races</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia;">matters not in the lie</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia;">among the faceless</span></div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia;">behind all the chapters lost wandering</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia;">unread irreversible</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia;">done howling at moons still waning</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia;">when a women sings softly</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia;">to the men who displace her</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia;">I make a note of their presence</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia;">those blue wants of a morning</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia;">who are the authors </span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia;">windows smarter than fire</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia;">setting the paces</span></div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia;">ahead loom the dangerous pedestals </span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia;">broken unmerciful</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia;">midst rubbish of sweet reprisal</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia;">when women dig deeper</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia;">in the most terrible places</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia;">I would have travelled the distance</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia;">ironing creases from time</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia;">who are those faces</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia;">icons bolder than I</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia;">thrashing the races</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia;">nyc 12/9/21</span></div></div></div></div>Linda Danzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01235726521836889564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6413366501570639274.post-21856786658859649972021-10-08T00:04:00.003-04:002021-10-08T00:04:32.365-04:00<p> <br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin: 0in;">gone past the lines of offensive defense<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">dead, he is<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">on his headstone, don’t try<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">pilgrimage may be before she dies<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">she still living among the relentless<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">breathing she is<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">still dying to know how it ends.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">nyc 9.30.2021<o:p></o:p></p><p><br /></p>Linda Danzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01235726521836889564noreply@blogger.com0