Thursday, April 13, 2023

Climbing Mango Trees in Skirts and Other Thoughts

not-quite Journaling, 51

Outside my window,
snowflakes polka dot New York
in a wintry shroud.
In my hearth, I fight frost
s bite
with inked feels and growing things.

3/14/2023: It’s is cold, windy, gloomy, and I don’t like it. But my books, plants, and the beef stew I made last night are wonderfully warming. So, there’s balance… sort of. How are things in your bit of the universe?

 


3/21/2023: Bits of the novel I’m working on are set in places that look and feel a lot like the Dominican Republic where I grew up until my mid-teens. The process has made me rather nostalgic… So, this prose poem came to mind.

 

I soar in the dark.


3/23/2023:
Just a wee reminder for me, myself, and I (and you, too, if you want it or need it). 🖤🥰🖤

 

sun kisses
in a New York spring
--
how lucky!

4/4/2023: Today would be a really good day to avoid New York City (the Orange Infection is scheduled to be arraigned in a Manhattan criminal court); the city will be a total mess. But I need a mammogram, and I refuse to let that… man change my routine. Besides, spring is springing, tomorrow is my birthday, and the sun is dancing kisses on my skin.

 

4/13/2023: I’ve had a ridiculously exhausting few weeks. But things are about to get back to my normal. I’m just one liver MRI and a visit to vascular medicine away from completing my yearly exams… until next year… damn.

- for Poets and Storytellers United--Friday Writings #72: Writing About Writing.

32 comments:

  1. Snowflakes and beef stew sound good to me. I also like the line about a threesome of girls living on the tip of your tongue!

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    1. I could use some of that beef stew today, lol!

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  2. threesome of girls living at the tip of my tongue... love it!!!!! And I don't say it enough - I do love your stitching/craft/erasure poems... I so want to learn how to make one.

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    1. I hope you give stitched blackout poetry a go. It's therapeutic. And absolutely enjoyable.

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  3. My you continue to soar in the dark and be kissed by the sunlight! That was all lovely to read; thank you.

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  4. I love the idea of soaring in the dark but ah … that wonderful kiss in the sunlight. Wishing you better and better good health days!

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  5. I love, love "I soar in the dark". But I'd never turn away the sun's affections either.

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  6. What a great photo of you receiving sun kisses! Happy belated birthday, Magaly.

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  7. I sit at my desk, eyes focused on the monitor, mouth gaping ... your post must be my all time forever favorite. I would gladly be one of your three 'girls' and walk the cold grey streets of NYC with you. It is cold in Bend today but sunny which makes everything ok. Hurray for a long period of time till those pesky tests. Your smile is contagious.

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  8. Happy Belated Birthday Wishes.
    I do like that photograph of you :)

    All the best Jan

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  9. Happy Birthday ! You are a very cosy girl with your book plants and beef stew, Spring will come soon and you'll be kissing sunshine all over the place. All those medical appointments are grim but necessary...nevertheless you look good...Take care...

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  10. Happy Birthday in advance. That sun kiss was delightful. You are an indomitable spirit.

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  11. "I soar in the dark" - Lovely! Do not let the darkness defeat you.
    Those Three Girls, look after them well, let them be your constant companions. A lot of people in your shoes would have given up long ago.

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  12. Youall had snow again last week? What a madly messed-up season. We had June-type weather. Most of the time Virginia and Pennsylvania are part of the same weather pattern with New York. Not this year. This has been the year New York hogged all the winter and left us none.

    It's important that there's documentation of that...one of the best things about the Internet. Thank you for the weather posts as well as the art and poetry.

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  13. And your words continue to warm these old bone...even in the damp, sludginess that professes to be Spring here in my waterlogged garden XXX

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  14. That prose poem, threesome of girls, is compelling. The idea of reading a novel that looks and feels like places in the Dominican Republic is gives a feeling of great anticipation. Happy writing!

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  15. Happy Belated Birthday! i love each of these girls, and would love to read that novel when it is finished. (Sara McNulty)

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  16. That novel is drawing me in.

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