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it’s stew
it’s stewa china small bowl of stewand now my brother sleepsall his peaceful nights worksall his thoughtless days while ii try pin the shoulders of all i believedown to the welcome mat on the hot sand at my doorwhere belief evades my reaching fingers and circleslike a fly circles me in the hottest time of Continue reading
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with words pike pointed
with words pike pointedand spear tipped steel and sharpened and polished piercethe center of his smock let him be the oldest man the man most warped who swingsa leg stiff at the knee and unbent through the door into the kitchen who before the day’s fire’s put in the stove comes uncalled and uninvited unmet Continue reading
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warn with a boundary stone in your voice
warn with a boundary stone in your voicethat doesn’t bend that isn’t movedby how an ox of a son in the fieldfifty years ago was crippleddown to an old uncle who limpsto the servants’ door without summons uncalled his shadow stooped by all the scythes he’s swungby all the straws he’s rakedby all the bundles Continue reading
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About Lucie Brock- Broida’s “Real Life”
About Lucie Brock- Broida’s “Real Life” As I was scrolling through my Facebook feed on Monday, after having posted the previous blog earlier in the day, I discovered Lucie Brock- Broida’s (1956- 2018) poem, “Real Life” (poets.org>poem>real-life). I say discovered because I’d never encountered the poem before. “Real Life” was published in Brock- Broida’s first Continue reading
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What I Know and What I Don’t Believe
As a male in my early sixties, I’m one of the twelve percent of thirty- five- to seventy- nine- year- old Canadians who’ve been diagnosed with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). Alberta, the Canadian province that is my home, in the summer is exposed either to heat and smoke or to humidity with impending rain. Continue reading
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5-13, 2023-Living With COPD
My medical condition is Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). There is severe impairment with my breathing function. I live with a constant sense of congestion in my lungs. There are efforts to cough the phlegm up several times a day, but it seems easiest to cough it up after I go to bed. The COPD Continue reading
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