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Not Swans by Susan Ludvigson I drive toward distant clouds and my mother’s dying. The quickened sky is mercury, it slithers across the horizon. Against that liquid silence, a V of birds crosses-sudden and silver. They tilt, becoming white light as they turn, glitter like shooting stars arcing slow motion out of the abyss, not […]

Because You Left Me A Handful of Daffodils by Max Garland I suddenly thought of Brenda Hatfield, queen of the 5th grade, Concord Elementary. A very thin, shy girl, almost as tall as Audrey Hepburn, but blond. She wore a dress based upon the principle of the daffodil: puffed sleeves, inflated bodice, profusion of frills […]

Not Swans by Susan Ludvigson I drive toward distant clouds and my mother’s dying. The quickened sky is mercury, it slithers across the horizon. Against that liquid silence, a V of birds crosses-sudden and silver. They tilt, becoming white light as they turn, glitter like shooting stars arcing slow motion out of the abyss, not […]

Because You Left Me A Handful of Daffodils by Max Garland I suddenly thought of Brenda Hatfield, queen of the 5th grade, Concord Elementary. A very thin, shy girl, almost as tall as Audrey Hepburn, but blond. She wore a dress based upon the principle of the daffodil: puffed sleeves, inflated bodice, profusion of frills […]