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For well over a century women have suffered under the burden of penis envy, one of many suppositions upon which Sigmund Freud built a career. Does anyone know the size of Sigmund? is a question […]

One of the most unusual places on earth is Leticia, Colombia, a port on the Amazon River.

It is located at the very bottom of a narrow strip of land hanging down from Colombia into Peru. Brazil […]

One day I ate a mushroom
And traveled with a snail,
Who led me down some sort of path,
A crazy winding trail.

The locomotion of the snail
Would lose him any race:
He stops and starts, goes inch by […]

Upstairs Mama talked to me. I stood where the bathroom window stuck out. The roof could be seen below and the back yard.

“You are going to have a baby brother or baby sister. Would you like a baby […]

Incline thine ears to hear my sayings,
And apply thine heart to their comprehension.
For it is a profitable thing to put them in thy heart.”

Composed in Ancient Egypt between 1550 and 1070 BC […]

CAMEO

Leaving
your little face
was a cameo etched
in sadness…like the falling snow
falling
falling
white hour on hour
pure and silent as a
consecration…sacred as a
teardrop.

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Hello, pretty girl.

“Who are you?”

You know who I am.

“Don’t you know my name?”

Melanie Faith.

“Thank you.”

You seem on the verge of expectation.

“I don’t understand.”

As though […]

Her presence moved over my shoulder. “Is that a poem?”
“Indeed it is,” I answered, seeking and pushing each key carefully.
“We teach business and secretarial; I’ve never seen anybody type a […]

If you have one major disability, that’s sad.

If you have two major disabilities, that’s a tragedy.

If you have three, Damn!

If you have four, that’s a catastrophe.

But if you have […]

SUNLIGHT ON A WARM MUD PUDDLE

It seemed
most certainly seemed
walking down the road
raindrops
echoing, on my mind
for a long time
Dripping
….from leaves
staring
looking for Peacocks
every day […]

Elizabeth I entered upon the duties of Queen in 1558 and reigned until 1603. Education in England declined after her reign, but during the early 1500s, when Elizabeth was a child, she was well taught.

Her […]

Daddy sawed down a dark green tree. It was one of the trees that had stayed green. Cold scent filled the house. Daddy put the tree in the big room with the red carpet.

Mama asked, “Do you know the first […]

Work never killed anybody.

But why take the chance?

“On December 1, 1955 Mrs. Rosa Parks, a 42-year-old Negro seamstress, was ordered by a Montgomery City Lines bus driver to get up and make way for some white passengers. She refused, was arrested and fined $10 […]

Oh, well, I’m back to my bitter-outcast, the-hell-with-humanity approach to society again, insulting readers everywhere. Enduringly upon me is…the multitude.

Belua multorum es capitum. The people are a […]

VEGAS IN JULY

Tons of midnight asphalt
Burn the streets of July;
And the glory of glitter is coloured fire,
Heat storm, dark interludes
Of music & roulette.

Indigo deepens, and
A damp, purple […]

Martin Luther produced more than 100 volumes of sermons, lectures and books, 37 hymns and music, including A Mighty Fortress Is Our God, the battle hymn of the Reformation. At 33 he was professor of Scripture […]