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2020: A year in review

The year began with disappointments,  echoes of 2019, clinging to a part-time job  that bridged school and work, a community  away from home. Winter blues shattered by a February call—  my brother found incoherent, incapable  of living alone, hospitalized, then placed in residence. A deep dread consumed not hours or days,  but months, it devoured my sleep, as COVID  devoured my writing.  Dark, angry poems poured  from me like syrup, ideas that wouldn't let go. Life  closed in like the walls that held me. A conscious effort, a calculated risk, took me  to the man I now claim.  A single  hug rekindled  a flicker of hope, as vaccines  and elections blew on the embers. A new project  commitment carries me into 2021, only looking back  to rewrite the future.
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A City Moves (Hibbing, MN)

You’ve heard of earthquakes  and landslides, but have you seen  the effects of a mining company?  in northern Minnesota 1919 188 buildings, businesses, and houses  were relocated  2 miles and then some  from their previous locations all because of political affiliations  New sewer, water, and electricity  loaded with manpower and steam  touted down new streets  When what is underneath you  is more valuable than above  people make choices for the families that they love https://www.minnpost.com/mnopedia/2012/10/relocation-hibbing-1919-1921/
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World Poetry Day

 I hope you are celebrating world poetry day today. If you can write one write a few.  If you can’t write one, read a dozen.
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Life limited

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  a line on the palm a line in a poem how many words can one write with a worn nub of a pencil are heartbeats numbered  due to sleepless nights  in games we seek our future  on ouija boards  and rolls of the cleromancy die if you turn a tarot’s noose fate is written in the book  but fortunes folly can lie
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Write your memoir with WRIGHTINGS

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Watercolor & poetry

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J. L. Wright Lari Jo Wallace Edwards Sharon Purcell  
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