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Conflation (poem)
Conflation I found home far from my birthplace, but at night my dreams remind me: I see them, Mom and Dad and their home at one with the landscape I now call my own and in daylight reality I know … Continue reading
Letter to a Straight Friend — a poem for Pride
I wrote this poem way back in 1979, as a sophomore in college — just a few months after I’d decided, after much agony of spirit, to accept what all my inner feelings were compelling me to know: that I … Continue reading
Does Anyone Beat Your Heart for You (poem)
Does Anyone Beat Your Heart for You does anyone beat your heart for you — oh yes I know there are some who will quicken it or slow it at their leaving — but when you are alone at night … Continue reading
Posted in No Way Way, Ordinance, Poems
Tagged "Annoy Prevo think for yourself", Anchorage Baptist Temple, Anchorage ordinance 2009-64, children, integrity, Jerry Prevo, Mississippi Avenue Baptist Church (MABC), poem, writing
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God of Mosquitoes (poem)
A summertime theology poem featuring “Alaska’s state bird.” I intended to post this a couple days ago, after a conversation with my friend Barbara who told me she was attracted to Buddhism but “I kill mosquitoes.” I was reminded again … Continue reading
Tributaries (poem)
I was offline most of — well, now I’ll say yesterday, Saturday, it now being early in the AM of Sunday the 14th. Saturday was the kick-off of this year’s PrideFest in Anchorage — the annual women’s show called Celebration … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged Celebration of Change, Green-Lieght family, poem, PrideFest, Ptery, Rozz, writing
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Goldilocks & the Three Bears: A Retelling
Posted in Short fiction
Tagged bear, fairy tale, Flickr, Goldilocks, humor, identity theft
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Saying "I Love You" (poem)
Saying “I Love You” Saturday I show him the video of the trip you and I took after we first met. It was almost four years ago. The tape starts with a pond along the highway to Valdez. There are … Continue reading
Blinks
On Facebook, my friend David has been thinking about blinks. He posted a brief little meditation about it a few days ago, & this morning a wonderful short poem called “Blinking” that I wish I could post here but I … Continue reading
Posted in Greens, Nonfiction
Tagged 1962, 1994, blinks, cats, Columbia Falls, creative nonfiction, Dad, Dave, David Cheezem, Eight Lives, Facebook, Green family, Gretchen Legler, Lem the cat, Mark, Melz history, memory, Mer, Mom, Montana, Rozz, UAA, Whylie, writing
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Sermon (a poem)
“I take as my text the Book of Job — / for are we not like him, innocent, / suffering, crying out for justice? / are we not like him, each of us / surrounded by these righteous, / these pious friends who so love us, / who console us with false accusations, who comfort us with lies?”