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Poetry: Citrus, by Sara Eddy. Image: a cross-section of a slice of orange. In each segment are mothers and daughters at differing stages of life.

poetry: Epiphany

Epiphany [not in the sense manifestation of Christ to Gentiles as represented by Magi (Matthew 2:1-12] Despite Jewish law’s at least soft prohibition as a physician plus human I’ve been all-in about end of life thoughtful autonomy for those of us who are considered to have terminal ills. But since around block witness to state-certified […]

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Poetry: Citrus, by Sara Eddy. Image: a cross-section of a slice of orange. In each segment are mothers and daughters at differing stages of life.

poetry: Citrus

Citrus My friend often stops by at lunch to talk about our kids–how hard it is and how lovely. It usually happens, because I love them, that I’m eating an orange, or a mandarin,  Sumo, blood orange, temple–one of that whole  bodacious family of juicy mamas, and I separate  a section or two bursting with

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Poetry. Bookmarks, by Colin Dardis. Image: the silhouette of a book with a variety of bookmarks poking out the top, including a pen, a feather, a ticket, a pair of scissors and a comb.

poetry: Bookmarks

Bookmarks It might be a receipt, a bus ticket, or if you need that ticket to return on, the foil paper ripped from a half-packet of gum, an old hairclip, something humdrum, a pen, or even, in desperation, a tissue, slightly used (do not judge them) or whatever else can be foraged from the handbag’s

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Poetry. Life After, by Lisa Stone. Image: a woman sits at the end of a jetty looking up at the moon.

poetry: Life After

Life After I sit alone, where the jetty soaks its bony ankles in the tide. Bladderwrack drifts, and the waves keep gentle company with the shore. Dusk muffles the lonely curlew’s cry. The reed beds stir: a silent eel  wrinkles the water’s surface. A sea breeze ruffles my heart, and I breathe out the remnants

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