Six is Magical...

Thanks to Grandma S for 

the bunny-popping-out-a-hat cake!

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Helping me get... Helpy

Not sure what's going on, 

but yesterday, after making dinner

I just didn't have any more energy 

So the kids put me to bed.

And then Scout sat on my feet

--To make sure I don't get up? 

To fart on my feet for warmth? 

So no one would wake me up?

And that reminded me 

when Little A was little 

and would say "Helpy" 

when he meant "healthy."

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Of Commutes

Our trees will soon be bones
snow-bleached death

their camouflage ripens
place, time

in the trenches of autumn
stars rent the sky

the monotony of brilliance
of looking away


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Monday/Vijaya Dashami

sleeping, dreaming of sleep
I'm a tidy lady of the rain

humming like a flower 

to the bees

in the hive of my eyes,

bloodshot as rubies

a vision belabors

free of gravity

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Rainbow-Toes and Butterflies

When I'm done...

I can get started...

I can hardly wait.

In Other Are You F*&^%ing Effing With Me News

I know you must feel terrible. I know I do every single day I drop my kids off at school. But Newtown people, it doesn't make any sense to raze your elementary school so another elementary school can be built on the same site. 

Over and over again at the link, the rhetoric is so that "we can bring our children home." I'm sorry. I'm sorry about it every day, but those children cannot come home.

Can you not use your resources on public health and education services instead and show the rest of us how to deal with and prevent those tragedies from happening?

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