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Topic: Fight, Flight or Camouflage
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Chanterelle
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posted October 30, 2020 06:52 AM
  
Like driftwood,
Uncle Tio’s
toes & heels
wash up on shore and hobble up the pass.
At the top,
amidst aloe,
he summons the rainbow.
Later, he in his bedroom slippers
(the only things that could contain those gnarled stumps)
And I, swollen-eyed,
purposely not having looked
in a mirror in three or four days,
he says:
Baibeh, I teach youto disappear.
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Chanterelle
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posted October 30, 2020 06:57 AM
This is an old one; not sure why it popped into my head this morning. IP: Logged |
Randall
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posted November 11, 2020 02:24 PM
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Chanterelle
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posted November 12, 2020 09:31 AM
Okay, backstory:
‘Uncle Tio’ (yes, now I’m aware of the joke— Tio means uncle... I’m sure that wasn’t his real name) was a Native American WWII veteran I met when I was a teenage vagabond in Hawaii. He wasn’t homeless, but spent the vast majority of his time in this one particular park — every afternoon he would go to the grocery store across the street, buy a couple of loaves of bread and packages of bologna and cheese and whatnot, and sit at a picnic table offering sandwiches and conversation to anyone who happened by. He was always saying he was going to call up a rainbow; usually nothing happened and he’d just shrug and smile and say “Maybe next time.” Same with the disappearing thing... he said it quite a few times, but never overtly taught me any such thing. He also talked a lot about how he was planning a trip to the mainland to see his daughter.
But then one day, when nobody else was around, he turned to me and said, “You know, I’m going home to die.” He was looking forward to it so much— the way he described how he would be welcomed, and washed, and given a place to lay with his bed facing the East... that right there just almost blew my mind. I’d always been a little terrified of the whole idea of growing old; my own grandparents had all lingered rather miserably in hospitals, so to be shown this other way... that’s a lesson I will always be grateful for.IP: Logged |
mirage29
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posted November 13, 2020 05:59 PM
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Ayelet
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posted November 16, 2020 02:05 PM
Yes, the best story I have ever heard about dying. It almost sounds like fun. Like an adventure. (Check "Peter Pan" on that one.)IP: Logged |
mirage29
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posted November 19, 2020 12:11 PM
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Voix_de_la_Mer
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posted November 20, 2020 05:46 AM
This poem has lovely clear imagery Chanterelle, inviting the reader step inside the story with the narrator. And who doesn't love a killer last line  Thank you for sharing!IP: Logged |
Randall
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posted December 21, 2020 12:42 PM
Ditto on the last line!IP: Logged |
Randall
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posted March 18, 2021 08:55 AM
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Randall
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posted July 01, 2021 11:47 AM
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Randall
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posted July 19, 2021 01:36 PM
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Randall
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posted August 06, 2021 11:46 AM
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Randall
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posted August 26, 2021 02:49 PM
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Randall
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posted September 14, 2021 01:24 PM
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Randall
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Randall
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posted December 02, 2021 09:32 AM
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Randall
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Randall
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posted May 30, 2022 05:24 PM
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Randall
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Virgo-AriesArtist
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posted June 30, 2022 04:42 PM
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Randall
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Randall
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posted July 26, 2022 09:48 AM
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Randall
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posted August 11, 2022 11:03 AM
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Randall
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