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"Still There" - (mac)ro(mic)

"Shedding Moment" - Fevers of the Mind

"Shedding Moment" - Fevers of the Mind

You were there, not conscious but in body, when they draped you, intubated and hooked you to a ventilator  ...   


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"Shedding Moment" - Fevers of the Mind

"Shedding Moment" - Fevers of the Mind

"Shedding Moment" - Fevers of the Mind

Lately, I've wanted to cut my hair, shorten my skirt, shed my years like the long skinny snakes ...  


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"Irish Green" - Backstory

"Shedding Moment" - Fevers of the Mind

"Buoyant" - The Basilisk Tree

I am from an Irish Clan’s love,

strong as bedrock, deep as ocean. I am from a surgeon's scalpel ...


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"Buoyant" - The Basilisk Tree

"Kingdom Come" - Sledgehammer Lit

"Buoyant" - The Basilisk Tree

As spring springs and buds bud, soon petals push open and bees bumble. Everywhere, breezes. 


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"Kingdom Come" - Sledgehammer Lit

"Kingdom Come" - Sledgehammer Lit

"Kingdom Come" - Sledgehammer Lit

Garden gargoyle, rumpled of brow, drowsy of eye, pointy of ear, peeks at me as I work the earth ...


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"Puff" - OLIT

"Kingdom Come" - Sledgehammer Lit

"Kingdom Come" - Sledgehammer Lit

She puffs and the flame, bending and swaying at the top of the solitary birthday candle  ... 


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"A Hole in the Head" - Dorothy Parker's Ashes

"The Dread of a Shred" - Dorothy Parker's Ashes

"A Hole in the Head" - Dorothy Parker's Ashes

We’d arrived at the ER just after midnight, January 5, 2016—ironically, Mom’s eighty-first birthday. 


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"What Matters" - Plum Recruit

"The Dread of a Shred" - Dorothy Parker's Ashes

"A Hole in the Head" - Dorothy Parker's Ashes

Our neighborhood has a sidewalk chalk artist, and I think she’s a girl.  Twelve, maybe thirteen ...


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"The Dread of a Shred" - Dorothy Parker's Ashes

"The Dread of a Shred" - Dorothy Parker's Ashes

"The Dread of a Shred" - Dorothy Parker's Ashes

I’ve had a headache for thirty days. OK, I’m lying. It’s closer to sixty, but sixty days sounds terribly long.   


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"Angie" - Unlatched Open Mic Podcast

"The Pull" - Unlatched Open Mic Podcast

"The Dread of a Shred" - Dorothy Parker's Ashes

Ann Kathryn Kelly reads her essay “Angie” for the Unlatched Open Mic Podcast, produced in London. 


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"The Pull" - Unlatched Open Mic Podcast

"The Pull" - Unlatched Open Mic Podcast

"The Pull" - Unlatched Open Mic Podcast

Ann Kathryn Kelly reads her essay “The Pull” for the Unlatched Open Mic Podcast, produced in London. 


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