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Pomegranate seeds
Without protective cover
Fermented in store -
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Snow brings out so much:
Peace, wonder, awe of nature,
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For yesterday:
The sound of a chime
Interrupts the day's routine
Hope hurts when it's lost
For today:
The first rays of dawn
Reach tired eyes through the window
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The most mundane things
Across the computer trails
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The warmth of sharing space
In your silly pink-sheeted bed
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The breezes whistle
As the shadow passes by-
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Well, why not? Nahaiwrimo, or an attempt thereat.
Gray through the tree limbs,
The curtain pulls the light down-
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I wonder what it takes to make an audiobook? I wonder if there's any point in my doing so?
You see, I'd forgotten how much I love this book I am reading (The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery, trans. Alison Anderson), and in rereading it occurs to me that if I were to do an audiobook, it would be this one. Of course, as a bestseller, ( Read more... ) -
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An interesting tidbit for those of you who have read Tanya Huff's Four Quarters series: I was given a map of Albania in my linguistics class and was surprised to immediately recognize several place names. As it turns out, Huff took most of her place names from cities in the Balkan region. Shkoder and Elbasan are cities in Albania; Ohrid is in ( Read more... ) -
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Two things of note about today:
1) It snowed this morning! Nothing stuck, but it snowed!
2) I WIN. No more grading left. No more papers. My obligations for this semester are OVER.