Tag Archives: life

Happenstance

Posted on June 18, 2023 by makinglittlecircle

I used to write a lot. Word formed inside my mind appeared on pages – hard copy or otherwise. Then menopause happened. My mind stops speaking in a way I could capture on paper, real or imaginary. Today I came … Continue reading →

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Memories

Posted on September 18, 2018 by makinglittlecircle

I love you more than words running across the road moments I could not have stopped even if I knew how to I love you more than what I, my, me, mine combined to make a whole world of all … Continue reading →

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Sophomore Year Begins

Posted on August 16, 2018 by makinglittlecircle

sweet air heavy with bees’ farewells moths dropping on the kitchen floor wings crumbled under the curious paws of the cat children who are no longer children filling their suitcases with clothes and linens books in bookbags, trunk full of … Continue reading →

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half-moon

Posted on May 24, 2018 by makinglittlecircle

Half moon in the night sky as real as a life lived. Someone says goodbye. Someone leaves without a word.  A story begins and ends tonight. My half moon mourns in the sky. The air is scented with the epilogue … Continue reading →

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Thursday: Thoughtful Poems

Posted on May 17, 2018 by makinglittlecircle

Ode I. 11 Leucon, no one’s allowed to know his fate, Not you, not me: don’t ask, don’t hunt for answers In tea leaves or palms. Be patient with whatever comes. This could be our last winter, it could be … Continue reading →

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Show me

Posted on April 28, 2018 by makinglittlecircle

Before things get complicated and I not knowing how to navigate the waters rocking the boat. To say I have always known the ways will be a full blown lie. I get lost when the way is known by others. … Continue reading →

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of leaving

Posted on April 21, 2018 by makinglittlecircle

I am not supposed to mourn the loss of you.  There is no place in this culture where a parent is allowed to hold grief for a child’s leaving home: not this burning sorrow marring the skin. They say grow a … Continue reading →

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parenting aftermath

Posted on March 27, 2018 by makinglittlecircle

They leave and I stop baking  cupcakes cookies shortbread brownies muffins pancakes pies after pies: apple pumpkin blueberry summer tarts sweet breads with whipped butter. The trays stay clean crumb-less kitchen table hums a sorrow song  through its grains of … Continue reading →

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Monday Mourning

Posted on March 5, 2018 by makinglittlecircle

Some people left quietly into the night with soft footsteps tender closing of eyes as if decades of their breath & width on this earth did not matter. No sirens stopped at their doorstep No gates flung open with a … Continue reading →

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Friday Flight

Posted on March 2, 2018 by makinglittlecircle

  The gusty winds above San Francisco airport were perhaps a bit too eager to embrace the plane.  We were tossed around  like little pennies inside a washer on a spin cycle set at highest level. The pilot had warned … Continue reading →

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