tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34732352616774921682024-03-13T02:21:16.429-05:00autobiography of turquoisejuleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11855873515906682086noreply@blogger.comBlogger97125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3473235261677492168.post-14782196278474164822017-12-06T09:40:00.003-06:002017-12-06T09:40:34.426-06:00Point of View<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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putting on my pj’s and cozying up with a good book.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So it’s strange not to have to do anything because
as of the last two weeks, I’ve had refractive lens exchange surgery and I no
longer wear contacts. Or glasses. I’m no longer blind waking up in the morning,
trying to read the time on my alarm clock. Morning and evening rituals to the
wayside, I can throw away the solutions, the contacts, the glasses. I hesitate,
wondering if this really works, but it’s working beautifully. Amazing. I burned
through the eye chart last week after my right eye was done for distance. I’ve
never been able to read the bottom line of the chart before, even with contacts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I started investigating this type of surgery about
ten or more years ago and was told I’d never get 20/20 vision because my eyes
were too nearsighted, I had stigmatism and the price was out of my reach. I
investigated again this year and decided to get tests to assure the doctors my
retinas were okay, and the price has come down considerably.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s still expensive, but worth every penny
in my view.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yesterday, my<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>left eye was done. When I say ‘done’ it makes
it sound like cosmetic surgery, and I suppose it is, but it is life-changing, a
new point of view. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Amazingly, it is ten years exactly to the month when I first
had my retinas evaluated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>See <a href="http://autobiographyofturquoise.blogspot.com/2007/">http://autobiographyofturquoise.blogspot.com/2007/</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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I didn’t plan it this way. The Universe agreed this time. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The surgery itself was a bit trippy. I’m in a rolling bed in
a room with others, almost assembly-line, mostly older folks getting their
cataracts removed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had a start of
cataracts also, so I’ll never have to do this again. They take my vitals, and
put drops in my eyes for dilation, and numbing and many other things, and hook
me up to the IV.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m lying flat, under
the microscope and sedated but still conscious. It is the “feel good” kind
where I try to figure out where I am in the room and hear the doctor’s voice
saying, ‘we’re putting in the new lens now’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>and I’m looking from behind my eyes into bright colors of pink, purple, yellow
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and a white flower stem like something
out of Dr. Seuss that I want to ask the doc, is that what is really in my
eye?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The nurse said I wouldn’t remember
so I tried to and in about ten minutes max it’s all over, I’m wheeled off to
recovery and offered coffee or water (I take the water) and after not eating
all morning and not drinking for 2 hours ahead of time I’m ready to go home and
crash on the couch and have something to eat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>My ride, Donna, is the designated driver and I’ve got my kit ahead of time
with sunglasses and eye drops and she drives me home, I watch the scenery out
of the car in perfect clarity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My eye is
still dilated so it’s a bit blurry, but I can tell it’s perfectly clear.
Instead of reading (which was not recommended), I watch a movie, Melancholia,
which is maybe a good metaphor for destroying the old world and opening the
new.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The depressing saga is an odd end
to my day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If I’m ever caught in an
apocalypse, I’ll have the clear vision to see it! The next morning I have my 8:20
am check up and the doc says it’s perfect, just where it’s supposed to be and
healing fine and I can resume all normal activities like driving and working on
the computer, just keep putting in my prescribed drops and avoid the hot tub. <o:p></o:p></div>
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For a week until my left eye is done, I wear my left
contact, slowly savoring half a ritual. When it’s time to take out my left
contact for bed, I am caught in a predicament of wearing my glasses with one
lens for reading, but blocking out my right eye, since the prescription is off.
My glasses are much weaker as I only wore them at home for reading and
relaxing. I host a workshop on point of view, and wonder about first, second
and third person, past and present tense, and structure of story. My eye will
always be an oval-shaped near-sighted eyeball, but the lenses will be new. That
is what I will always watch for, any signs of retinal detachment, like bright
flashes or shadows. No signs of that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Soon I am back, knowing the routine, and they are backed up a bit on the
schedule, but once I get in and wait for that sweet dream of tantalizing
colors, which this time I don’t remember, just the doc saying ‘it’s perfect’
and I wake up and request coffee this time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I’m ready to go home and watch more TV, this time the British Baking
Show holiday cook-off, something light and festive. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I put my glasses on the table in my studio, where they may
become some future art project. I’ve worn contacts since I was about 14, around
1976, when there were only the hard ones and I had to go on a wearing schedule
and take them out in the school bathroom sink. In two hours, out four
hours.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Trying not to lose them along
with my retainer after my braces were off. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I would search for a lost lens in the grass,
when we went camping (in those days I only had one pair and could wash them off
with plain water). I would avoid water sports at the beach and swimming was a
big blur.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I found out that when I wore a
scuba mask I could see clearly underwater, which was a pleasant way to spend
the time. I did try waterskiing and got up a few times but without my contacts
I didn’t know what dock was ours on the lake, all the cabins were a blur, so I
told the boat driver to just swing around when we got close and I’d let go. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Books were close, accessible, and within my
range of vision. I could do anything in my imagination, unhindered by poor
eyesight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A guy friend in college wanted
to join the Air Force so bad but he had poor vision. Those were the days before
lasik so there were no options. Soft contacts appeared on the market and were a
lifesaver for comfort.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The extended wear
ones you supposedly could sleep in, but they never worked that way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Late night dating had its challenges when I
would decide whether to spend the night sometimes based on how my eyes felt and
if I had any solution or my glasses with me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>If it was a boyfriend and he wanted me to stay over, I had an excuse to
leave because I didn’t have my glasses or I didn’t want to put my contacts in a
jar and risk losing them, or if I did bring my glasses in my purse I didn’t
want it to look like I was anticipating something that I did not want to
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The tipping point was when I had to have special order
contacts in order to get enough power to see clearly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I decided to spend my money on surgery
instead of lenses. Driving at night now is clear, those hazy shadows of confusion
mostly gone. My point of contact with the world is permanently altered to a new
point of view, an almost-full moon night sky view, my white eyeball flower of
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juleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11855873515906682086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3473235261677492168.post-48047970534415550582013-04-30T11:50:00.001-05:002013-04-30T11:51:44.298-05:00Poem of the Day #30<br />
<strong>Track</strong><br />
<br />
We were driving; no, ballooning.<br />
We hover over the train tracks at sunset, out by Laguna.<br />
BNSF half-mile long, cars hauling uranium, no, coal.<br />
<br />
We land in the casino parking lot. Mostly old people<br />
inside, but some young ones, where money is traded<br />
for expectations of dreams. <br />
<br />
Six thousand dollars is counted out to one woman<br />
in cash, hundreds. Time to get out of here. City lights<br />
are a distant flicker on the horizon.<br />
<br />
We float east and the train is still there, now motionless.<br />
I think of my parents, they would like this adventure.<br />
They sleep three states away, distant. <br />
<br />
Dreams so deep they won't remember<br />
the journey when they wake up in their room.<br />
The pilot gives us a shot of propane.<br />
<br />
We rise, reaching; <br />
content to drift,<br />
silent at sunrise.<br />
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<em>This is my final poem for April poetry month. I grew up with my dad and brother being railfans and into model railroading. Every time I pass a depot or train museum I'm conditioned to stop. While driving on I-40 west of Albuquerque towards Acoma Pueblo and Grants I've seen long trains. I don't have a photo, but the one here will have to do. I combined my love of hot air ballooning with trains in this poem. </em>juleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11855873515906682086noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3473235261677492168.post-18348890132279251662013-04-30T08:09:00.000-05:002013-04-30T08:09:16.082-05:00Poem of the Day #29<b>Moon</b><br />
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At three a.m.<br />
the moon knows<br />
the truth.<br />
<br />juleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11855873515906682086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3473235261677492168.post-85873909518841814212013-04-28T22:43:00.001-05:002013-04-28T22:45:42.784-05:00Poem of the Day #28<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Cactus sprout new shoots<br />
and the park with green grass is comfort<br />
for families with kids playing on swings<br />
guitar music floating on leafy trees<br />
young couples embracing on blankets.<br />
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My satisfaction of planting herbs on my front walkway<br />
to bloom in summer<br />
A two hour breakfast with friends outside<br />
A perfect sundown for a day in paradise<br />
Saturn rises.<br />
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<br />juleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11855873515906682086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3473235261677492168.post-10298036365990311202013-04-28T00:16:00.003-05:002013-04-28T00:16:54.171-05:00Poem of the Day #27<strong>Leave Me Alone says Daisy Kenyon played by Joan Crawford</strong><br />
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and the phone keeps ringing</div>
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Two men want to possess her</div>
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they don't understand how she could want neither, </div>
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a woman alone with her career in the 1940's.</div>
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Alone at the Cape in winter</div>
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the two men still pursue her</div>
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their needs stronger than hers</div>
an attorney's conquest<br />
a troubled veteran's imaginary love<br />
she wants the ringing to stop, <br />
she wants to get on with her life, <br />
make her own plans.<br />
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She is always the other woman<br />
competing with a wife, one alive, one dead.<br />
She wants to be her own woman now<br />
and almost is<br />
until Hollywood prescribes the woman-must-get-married ending.<br />
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Joan, I love your face and your woes<br />
preserved in film noir<br />
you are gorgeous, dark and beautiful<br />
as you play the part <br />
of Daisy with her still-husband walking in the door.<br />
You have that second martini<br />
and toast your make-believe marriage.<br />
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juleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11855873515906682086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3473235261677492168.post-88889449053611571602013-04-27T08:53:00.000-05:002013-04-27T08:53:06.986-05:00Poem of the Day #26<b>Naked</b><br />
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I have no tattoos on my body.<br />
Am I truly naked?<br />
Kids talk of their next mark of ink<br />
to remember someone or something.<br />
My body is blank of needles.<br />
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I sometimes wish I had skin of color.<br />
I came here from the north<br />
white as snow.<br />
Now the sun has marked me.<br />
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I wish I could dye myself a new color<br />
each day<br />
around the color wheel.<br />
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White privilege cannot be erased<br />
I stand in solidarity<br />
with color.<br />
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<br />juleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11855873515906682086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3473235261677492168.post-1366693115444819982013-04-26T08:26:00.004-05:002013-04-26T08:26:51.104-05:00Poem of the Day #25<b>Poem that Slept in Late</b><br />
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It's okay to title a poem "Poem"<br />
Train ride dream to no-<br />
Where car carries my water<br />
I climb the rope<br />
Ladder to no-<br />
Where is the next level?<br />
It's okay to count<br />
This poem a day late.<br />
<br />juleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11855873515906682086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3473235261677492168.post-41909997234477917192013-04-24T22:44:00.001-05:002013-04-24T22:44:05.597-05:00Poem of the Day #24<b>Comment on Three Teenagers Drag Racing</b><br />
<b>On Central Avenue and Louisiana</b><br />
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Dead.<br />
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Forever.<br />
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At four a.m. we saw a meteor shower<br />
Yellow moon full and low.<br />
My flight away from you will gain me two hours<br />
At four a.m. we saw a meteor shower<br />
Burning jet fuel carries me east to west in hours<br />
Disorienting time and place to see you, my beau<br />
At four a.m. we saw a meteor shower<br />
Yellow moon full and low.<br />
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<i>Today's prompt is a Triolet. See <span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap;">http://www.napowrimo.net/ for day #23.</span></i><br />
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Blue bells, cockle shells<br />
Easy ivy over<br />
Time travel through the swing<br />
One plus one is?<br />
(Jumper responds) Two<br />
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Two cities east and west<br />
Who will travel next?<br />
Two plus two is?<br />
(Jumper responds) Four<br />
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Mama called the doctor<br />
The doctor called the nurse<br />
The nurse called the lady with the alligator purse.<br />
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Boy and Girl hold jump rope ends<br />
Swing around and start again.juleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11855873515906682086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3473235261677492168.post-68660502077000365172013-04-21T18:35:00.001-05:002013-04-21T18:42:06.394-05:00Poem of the Day #21<b>Lines for Chekhov's Uncle Vanya's Fortune Cookies</b><br />
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You ought to have done something that mattered.<br />
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The land is getting poor and more hideous every day.<br />
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Let yourself go for once in your life.<br />
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You're not mad, you're simply a crank.<br />
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I believe it's normal for a man to be a crank.You are perfectly normal.<br />
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You shall live through a long, long succession of days and tedious evenings.<br />
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You've ruined my life. I have not lived! I have not lived!<br />
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In the whole of this province there have been only two decent, cultured people -- you and I.<br />
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Wherever you go, you bring along destruction with you.<br />
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The life itself is tedious, stupid, squalid.<br />
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You used to be an inspiring personality who never inspired anybody.<br />
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Man is endowed with reason and creative power so that he can increase what has been given him,but up to the present he's been destroying and not creating.<br />
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When I'm in this state I get extremely provocative and audacious.<br />
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You will draw up the most far-reaching plans for the future!<br />
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You will marry for love, or for what at the time seemed real love.<br />
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A talented man can't stay free from blemishes in Russia.<br />
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You will fall head over heels in love with some water-sprite.<br />
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Life has swallowed you up, poisoned your blood with its putrid vapors until now you will become just as petty as all the rest.<br />
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You shall know a life that is bright and beautiful. You shall rest!<br />
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<i>Today's prompt from NaPoWriMo: re-write Frank O’Hara’s <a href="http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/lines-for-the-fortune-cookies/">Lines for the Fortune Cookies</a>. </i>juleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11855873515906682086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3473235261677492168.post-84520495623366267602013-04-20T22:21:00.001-05:002013-04-20T22:50:53.559-05:00Poem of the Day #20<br />
<b>Kodak Kitchen</b><br />
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George Eastman's organist plays precisely at 7:30 am<br />
as he descends his grand staircase fully suited<br />
to eat breakfast by himself<br />
in his mansion.<br />
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As a young man, he spent three years<br />
in his mother's kitchen<br />
experimenting with gelatin emulsions.<br />
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Now his house secretary<br />
uses double-ledger accounting<br />
at his insistence <br />
and he audits her once a year.<br />
His staff of forty anticipates his every whim.<br />
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Snapshot is an old hunting term<br />
for "no aim."<br />
Kodak cameras had a shutter<br />
but no viewfinder.<br />
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After his suicide,<br />
visitors photograph his estate<br />
on self-guided tours:<br />
their kitchens full of empty jars;<br />
their cameras, phones with no viewfinders.<br />
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<i>Inspired by the George Eastman House in Rochester, NY. </i><br />
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<br />juleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11855873515906682086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3473235261677492168.post-51143098325440577052013-04-19T20:54:00.000-05:002013-04-19T21:05:58.233-05:00Poem of the Day #19<b>Found Poem: 21 lines from many books (and a few objects)</b><br />
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Mary in a cafe drinking Sioux City sarsaparilla<br />
The broken check work of the steel girders against the sky.<br />
They put soup in front of her but she couldn't manage it.<br />
She threw vodka in on top of the tea.<br />
There was every kind of news in the paper: accidents, shipwrecks, sports and politics.<br />
She stood up and closed her eyes.<br />
Absentee landlords had long been a feature of the Irish landscape.<br />
She wished to God it was all over. The country had gone mad.<br />
Billy had told her as soon as they met in front of Nick's that both their names were on the list.<br />
She remembered when they rode in clear mountain mornings<br />
"Do not say that I'll depart tomorrow because even today I still arrive" he said.<br />
After the second wedding, the former Miss Wei stopped having bad dreams.<br />
Two tiny Art Deco teacups, white and rusty brown.<br />
"I'd be your best man if you wanted me too," Billy offered.<br />
Romantic love easily becomes the overblown flower of the ego's desire for unique value<br />
The next morning fog wove birch and yew and holly trees; in the clearing a naked figure leaped and cavorted in the blue dawn.<br />
He retreated suddenly into his bedroom. In the brief solitude of finding his coat, his whole body began to quiver.<br />
The church rose up from the dust of the road, huge brown granite blocks rose skyward to hold the bell tower and the cross of Christ.<br />
Mary saw herself riding down from the mountains to the desert at that hour when thunderstorms and sunsets caparison the sky.<br />
She drank more tea.<br />
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<br />juleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11855873515906682086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3473235261677492168.post-51349086828167732102013-04-18T21:35:00.000-05:002013-04-18T21:35:31.204-05:00Poem of the Day #18<br />
<b>Sun</b><br />
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Sun comes out<br />
with house items<br />
and furniture<br />
that haven't seen<br />
the light of day<br />
in years, a hallway cleared<br />
of clouds.<br />
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Clinging, old sheets<br />
make a tablecloth<br />
for a newly discovered tea set.<br />
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We sort a box and a bag at a time.<br />
It is worth it to see your face<br />
with movement.<br />
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Overwhelmed,<br />
the window fills with sun.<br />
<br />juleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11855873515906682086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3473235261677492168.post-4006219187585389532013-04-17T22:17:00.001-05:002013-04-17T22:17:18.175-05:00Poem of the Day #17<b>Dime Time</b><br />
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Pay phone rings.<br />
A woman answers. Who<br />
will be on the other end to talk to?<br />
She hears her heart beating.<br />
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Library typing room.<br />
A man brings a bag of dimes<br />
Ten cents a half-hour<br />
writes a novel on $9.80.<br />
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Dime novel pulp<br />
is devoured by the woman.<br />
Transplants her to fantasy<br />
only a planet away.<br />
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<i>Inspired by Ray Bradbury, who wrote Fahrenheit 451 at the UCLA Library on dime fed typewriters.</i><br />
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<br />juleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11855873515906682086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3473235261677492168.post-40187163218911270362013-04-16T20:30:00.000-05:002013-04-16T20:30:19.766-05:00Poem of the Day #16<b>Livonia, New York</b><br />
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Glowering globe of gray<br />
Wet green grass<br />
Farmer's dirt<br />
Lakeshore town<br />
Red sunset means<br />
Better day tomorrow.<br />
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<br />juleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11855873515906682086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3473235261677492168.post-89898092436669311162013-04-15T20:45:00.000-05:002013-04-15T20:48:13.297-05:00Poem of the Day #15<strong>Starry Night</strong><br />
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a birthday wish<br />
at the Starry Night<br />
aVan Gogh washes over walls<br />
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a blue guitar and two women</div>
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sing sweet like crows</div>
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musical birds</div>
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spring is a bird</div>
fluttering like a candle-on-a cake wish<br />
all is not dark despite wishes of Blake's crow<br />
aurora borealis might seize the night<br />
"your text is spare" sings the young woman<br />
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Joe's still a-playin' unto empty pockets, his back to the wall</div>
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no bluebirds on these walls</div>
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crow is darkbird</div>
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white owl speaks to the woman</div>
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the birthday boy makes a wish</div>
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that tonight might be the night</div>
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where the crows</div>
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fly north the crow</div>
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speaks knocking on the wall</div>
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another starry night</div>
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where the birds</div>
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run the show wishing</div>
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they were women</div>
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with wings women</div>
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who can crow</div>
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out another wish</div>
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their backs to the wall</div>
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the man looks to the birds</div>
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on a bottle of <i>Dirty Nighttime</i></div>
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beer is content spending his night</div>
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with the precious woman</div>
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of his dreams who is a bird</div>
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in disguise the black crow</div>
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of Poe or maybe hidden in the wall</div>
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with George Sand a wish</div>
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for a birthday night a wish for birds</div>
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together Crow Woman and Bird Man</div>
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no walls or texts between them</div>
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<em>Happy Birthday John at the Starry Night Cafe, Rochester, NY April 13, 2013</em></div>
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<em>John wrote lines 9 through 12</em></div>
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<em>sestina by Jules Nyquist </em></div>
juleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11855873515906682086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3473235261677492168.post-50727319266043833312013-04-14T21:36:00.002-05:002013-04-14T21:57:02.483-05:00Poem of the Day # 14 <b>Blue Trees Fly</b><br />
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blue trees fly <br />
drift among clouds<br />
cottonwoods and pines together<br />
lacy branches weave a place of protection<br />
they cry at night<br />
tears with stars<br />
float in space<br />
invite me to sit<br />
where they once had roots<br />
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<i>Thanks to poet </i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwDSZtedbMsOuT2Sm2OUSgaDFLkF0BuXuNwFOf4FQ_Uj2i1cVdW-9M8VgzbhYRwdkJTU5neKtXuOw7IQzZCFe3XQoizQg3iHs_-jDXy5DQ4bDFqghE24QKYvs5Y4l9o5PxL9VaarhWLHxm/s1600/bluetree2013-04-05+20.12.41.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwDSZtedbMsOuT2Sm2OUSgaDFLkF0BuXuNwFOf4FQ_Uj2i1cVdW-9M8VgzbhYRwdkJTU5neKtXuOw7IQzZCFe3XQoizQg3iHs_-jDXy5DQ4bDFqghE24QKYvs5Y4l9o5PxL9VaarhWLHxm/s320/bluetree2013-04-05+20.12.41.jpg" width="239" /></a></div>
<i>George Wallace for his inspiration during the writing workshop.</i><br />
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<i>photo: Jules Nyquist - taken in Old Town, Albuquerque. </i>juleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11855873515906682086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3473235261677492168.post-20557521804296313102013-04-13T16:58:00.003-05:002013-04-13T16:59:30.884-05:00Poem of the Day #13Reverse Sestina<br />
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Money built<br />
I tower<br />
of a built<br />
tower money of<br />
and I tower<br />
of I<br />
a money built<br />
of a built<br />
money I tower<br />
a money tower<br />
I built of<br />
money, I<br />
of built tower<br />
and I built<br />
a tower of money.<br />
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<i>At a writing workshop with New York City poet George Wallace.</i>juleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11855873515906682086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3473235261677492168.post-15352956825748180012013-04-12T12:17:00.000-05:002013-04-12T12:17:09.056-05:00Poem of the Day #12Layover<br />
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Early rise in flight<br />
brings hunger and time change east<br />
so no more breakfast offerings.<br />
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Soon to be upstate in hills, woods, rain.<br />
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Small airport pleasures: a long phone conversation<br />
with poet friend, being lost in a good book<br />
and a comfy seat near a power charging station.<br />
<br />juleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11855873515906682086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3473235261677492168.post-42920797978861014522013-04-11T12:20:00.002-05:002013-04-11T12:22:49.560-05:00Poem of the Day #11 <strong>Dear Sestina:</strong><br />
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You've taught me that I can write your obsessive, graceful form again when I thought all was lost. You've taught me patience, endurance, silliness and a longing for you like a forbidden relationship. You are a "high" for a woman of letters, a nourishment, a secret code of numbers, a troubadour club of the few who practice this art. A seven sestina sisterhood. Circular flames enfolding, give me permission to remember, to write about those guarded fears as you slowly pull them out of me. I am not alone. I promise to come out and play with you more often.</div>
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Verty truly yours,</div>
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Jules</div>
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<em>Written for the end of our sestina class. </em><br />
<em>Photo: Arnaut Daniel - the first sestina troubadour.</em></div>
juleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11855873515906682086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3473235261677492168.post-77682403750011458532013-04-10T12:06:00.002-05:002013-04-10T12:06:35.493-05:00Poem of the Day #10<strong>April</strong><br />
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Snow on mountains<br />
much needed rain<br />
last week's drought, dust and hot temps give way.<br />
I don't wear a coat at night in the cold.<br />
Am I a New Mexican now?<br />
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<strong>Filmstrip Genre</strong><br />
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What do they know in New York<br />
about <em>"Understanding Your Love Feelings"</em><br />
the name of the filmstrip we watch as poets.<br />
Projector with strips of film<br />
rolled, plastic see-through, teacher with wooden pointer<br />
on the screen. <br />
A kid in class mimics the 'beep' sound perfectly<br />
causing the teacher to get confused, advance the strip<br />
all wrong. She asks us, is this fact or fiction?<br />
Shout your answers. Here in the 'Burque we don't know,<br />
we say faction.<br />
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<em>Thanks to Jenette for the filmstrip session at last night's East of Edith and for Mitch for the story about the kid.</em><br />
<br />juleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11855873515906682086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3473235261677492168.post-26310358759110057292013-04-08T09:40:00.002-05:002013-04-09T10:35:05.438-05:00Poem of the Day #8<em></em><br />
<strong>Zoo</strong><br />
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Humans have a way of living in boxes<br />
organizing box-like structures for other species<br />
to live as we do.<br />
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Plants are easy. They don't complain if we arrange<br />
beautiful gardens<br />
and leave them there for our happiness.<br />
Sexual organs flourish as flowers and we can pick them at will.<br />
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Who's to say the giant koi aren't happy?</div>
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Colorful swimmers, they are well-fed and with their own kind.</div>
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The sole white rhino is more difficult.</div>
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Hunted for his horn, warning signs are posted outside his area</div>
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to remind us of illegal ivory selling</div>
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blaming the demand on some far-away bushmen</div>
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with insatiable desires to feed their manhood with its magical powers.</div>
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The zebras are not running away from the lions</div>
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The people here will never hear the ear-splitting roar of the King of the Jungle</div>
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The cheetah naps most of the day.</div>
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A teenager asks, "Why are they sleeping all the time?" </div>
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"You would too, if you were in a cage," her friend replies.</div>
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The aquarium seems more soothing.</div>
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We cannot imagine what it's like to be a fish</div>
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and couples have their photos taken with the sharks</div>
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and barracudas behind them.</div>
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Something primal is in the jellyfish moon tank</div>
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lit up in darkness. They pulse and glow.</div>
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No brain, no heart, no organs we argue for when we say human life begins,</div>
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yet here they are, surviving in spite of us.</div>
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We have done our part to catalog and preserve our fellow creatures</div>
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into extinction from wildness.</div>
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The elephants sway and toss dust or water on themselves with their trunks.</div>
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Why would it be otherwise?</div>
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I say goodbye to the four elephants as I ride the train</div>
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back to the gardens and conservatory.</div>
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The sign reaassured me they have 5.5 acres to roam</div>
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and they "sleep under the stars" on summer nights.</div>
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We are all born into captivity.</div>
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<em>I went to the Albuquerque Biopark for the first time yesterday. Within walking distance from my house. This poem was forming in my head all day, I just had to write it down. I admire the gardens and the aquarium and the Biopark is a great part of the city. The Children's Fantasy Garden is marvelous and enchants the imagination. I've always felt a bit uncomfortable in zoos, however. </em></div>
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<br />juleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11855873515906682086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3473235261677492168.post-67289992676074497872013-04-07T23:09:00.000-05:002013-04-07T23:09:25.085-05:00Poem A Day #7<br />
<b>Fowl</b><br />
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Pheasants are an exotic bird, she said, she saw one for the first time.<br />
Daddy used to go hunting, I thought, and brought them home<br />
and I'd stroke their colorful feathers while our golden lab, Blondie<br />
proudly wagged her tail as she stood next to me.<br />
A Minnesota autumn saw pheasants hiding in cornfields<br />
as they walked through dried stalks, the dogs flushing them out<br />
while the men shoot. <br />
I was 5 or 6 at the time, and remember grouse hunting too<br />
but ring-necked <br />
pheasants were the superior bird for the dinner plate.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu5JkIpDEZJuBk7X8QW_XHTsh9Dz1gSHREXX_23WG3_gI4Y_yI5aGidG6ONQ443RCJkTL3v-lq-1UKfLgQxfDqDvV71dr8M2JrjflO2oNynh3PCZSBsn1fLE2JFOeTBnBoV5qJI7lqH8bU/s1600/Ring_necked_Pheasant_David_Stephens_glamor.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="145" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu5JkIpDEZJuBk7X8QW_XHTsh9Dz1gSHREXX_23WG3_gI4Y_yI5aGidG6ONQ443RCJkTL3v-lq-1UKfLgQxfDqDvV71dr8M2JrjflO2oNynh3PCZSBsn1fLE2JFOeTBnBoV5qJI7lqH8bU/s200/Ring_necked_Pheasant_David_Stephens_glamor.jpg" width="200" /></a>I call up Dad today to ask him about pheasants. They are scarcer now<br />
and he tells me when they started plowing down the cornstalks before each winter<br />
when he was on the farm. Corn bores would destroy the crop, seeking the sugar.<br />
No more habitat left for either.<br />
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Quail are exotic to me.<br />
I see them running in a group of four, or five as I float in the air<br />
my hot air balloon pilot friend pointing them out in the desert.<br />
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Pigeons coo-coo-ca-choo from my neighbor's rooftop.<br />
I know their calls and their nesting habits as they parade down the sidewalk<br />
their heads bobbing, from Minneapolis to Albuquerque.<br />
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