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AGE: 49
LOC: Renton, WA
GEN: Female
LAST LOGIN: October 27

I’m a speculative poet and fiction writer who has completed one novel and am working on my second. My stories are futuristic, sometimes post-apocalyptic, with elements of science and horror.

I have stories recently published at Kinships, Whispering Spirits E-Anthology, and coming soon at Tall Texans newsletter and Aoife’s Kiss. I have poems at www.specusphere.com and coming soon at Yellow Mama and Kaleidotrope.

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How will you, my lover ever imagine the faces and hearts that visit my palace-- urchin or limpkin, griffin or singing robin, which in your room would be a sterile office? My papers piled like the feathering of book pages, collaged like morning glory sky awakened, emotions painted in petunia-colored rages and the chaos of organization overtakened. The joining of our minds meets without space, that of our bodies with exotic tastes, thoughts shared like the gyrations of a marketplace. alternatin...
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Poetry / Sunflower Song
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Not washing my hands but wetting them-- don't like the dust and dead wood feel of this ole wheelbarrow pushed by me. Pushed by me and me been pushed, gonna pull them weeds or toss some roots. Don't know why but dirt feels good. And the crick in the back don't hide. Don't hide the pain, don't hide from work it'll find you the same way drudgin all day. Someone will eat, some flower will bud and the lofty soft soil been dug up and threshed. That's the way it is for me, I been threshed out, worn ...
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Poetry / Hey Babe
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You're such a smoozer, cruiser Walking the line, talking for dimes Playing the hearts, after all, they're just tarts And you have a blade to gut them with, "but" ... "who me? I never said we". You're such a mongrel, wastrel, Lips that toke, lungs that inhale smoke, A sip to mellow, street as pillow and your have a thirst, to burst best wishes, empty caresses. Unquenched you use fear, jeer tell them they're queer, never tear, clench fists, thumb twist and we bruise, take abuse thinking you'll ...
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How will you, my lover ever imagine the faces and hearts that visit my palace-- urchin or limpkin, griffin or singing robin, which in your room would be a sterile office? My papers piled like the feathering of book pages, collaged like the morning glory sky awakened, emotions painted in petunia-colored rages and the chaos of organization overtakened. The joining of our minds meets without space, that of our bodies with exotic tastes, thoughts shared like the gyrations of a marketplace. altern...
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You Change Your Mind But I like it, like your game "the desire of the week" so linger in loving our new ways. And if I were to choose the desire of the month to be that of the star-- choose weak Lalande hiding at the end of the great bear. you must need healing, or cool red Mira, we'd kiss knowing the most beauteous, the deep passion after flame, or brightest Pleione, spinning rapidly, and we would dance, you and I, underneath an August night and all the games we'd play the touches of mind, h...
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Short Story / The Book of Cleansing
Although He can be used as a name, it is awkward and maybe if you mean God or some entity, perhaps that name should be used in the first line so the reader understands the first line. Reverse the second sentence because it reads awkwardly and destroyed is a powerful word. Put in a paragraph break after sinning. Make speakers speak in their own paragraph i.e Satan He . He in the last paragraph is confusing because of He used as the other entity. If these characters persist, readers are going ...
I'd get rid of the first three lines--sometimes in writing poetry, you've experienced an event and use it to get into the poem. The reader doesn't need to know where the web was encountered--only the meditation mentioned in the title. It would also make a better formed set of stanzas. I'd monkey with the third stanza, too, to make it three lines--eliminating the high concept words that are hard to experience, feel or relate to. i.e something like: Concentric and new--this web glows in half li...
Poetry / Trigger
I love this, the message, having been there. Just a few specific edits: I think you meant to remove "tried to" preceding Clipped. I'd put a break after thrived in the first stanza. I'd move the stmt--to feel this craving void to the preceding stanza and make it reflect how it all made you feel or did you mean fill? It looks like there's a new you so I'd want some distinction between them. I'd make the stanza's all five lines, adding an additional one to the end, maybe saying what your new tri...
I'd capitalize new and mertile if those words are part of your title. I like your made up words, they make some amount of implied sense that adds to the poem and in facts defines its style. I get lost on the last two lines, where before I'm getting this sense of a big city and mood. It's very interesting.
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