Monthly Archives: November 2006

cast X upon the waters

her fingers grasp the stubby pencil now that she can mark an X and change the world which used to scorn her brain as half a man’s but better than a slave with none at all in law the way … Continue reading

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Meeting

The members of the meeting sit around the table by this time, some slumped in their chairs, others fidgetting none but the speaker engaged in the subject of the moment. He speaks at great length explainingtheprosandconsorconsandprosofsomething- withoutendormeaningordescription; he takes a … Continue reading

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Begin

The pear is a natural shape that hears gravity and sees itself reflected in the arms of a woman cradling the baby that grows within her. She may stand by a window transformed, mutated to beauty that she never anticipated … Continue reading

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