tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-235027622024-03-14T07:09:12.418+11:00eglantine's cake:i was thinking of you, so i blogged about itPenni Russonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17956453252195293843noreply@blogger.comBlogger853125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23502762.post-25209317296135976222021-01-05T19:39:00.001+11:002021-01-05T20:14:16.882+11:00Autobiography 2020<p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span> </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.birdlife.org.au/australian-birdlife/detail/fifty-shades-of-brown-identifying-female-fairy-wrens" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="382" data-original-width="580" height="211" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-gccD_GauOoI/X_QlgOtt25I/AAAAAAAACbA/Hz4fvNXTRBYtf9ZBXZfz41D9lfj4zwUUwCNcBGAsYHQ/image.png" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /><br /></span><p></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>after Madeline Gins</i></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">my name,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Penelope,</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">belongs to my body</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">I am 45 years old and have<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">so many years to live</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">another name for me might be doctor</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">I move according to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">the gravity of the situation</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">I am composed of contact points</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">another name for me might be mother</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">I try to stay in the moment</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">I think about that all the time</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">I breathe with conscious force</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">I wake up with pain<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">or lie down with it</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">wrapping it around me</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">I married that pain and only death</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">will part us</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">let me tell you about<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">the world we live in now<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">or the world as it was</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">poetry has always been necessary<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">the throat of life</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">birdlike</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">stones communicating with stones</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">but where I am now<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">is the end of poetry</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">birds</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">are the new poetry</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /><br /></span><br /><p></p>Penni Russonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17956453252195293843noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23502762.post-67327384427938471382021-01-04T16:30:00.007+11:002021-01-04T16:49:45.032+11:00Day three<p>Today is day four but this is my day three poem. </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-eDgZY7Spwhc/X_KngPTzOzI/AAAAAAAACaU/jWbhWGWGihEG67-iy1ZNZfYjWV7pAZ9XwCNcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1200" height="240" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-eDgZY7Spwhc/X_KngPTzOzI/AAAAAAAACaU/jWbhWGWGihEG67-iy1ZNZfYjWV7pAZ9XwCNcBGAsYHQ/image.png" width="240" /></a></div><br />Image credit: <a href="https://www.bookconnection.com.au/product/survivors-4/">The Book Connection</a> (Buy The Survivors there!)<p></p><p><span color="var(--primary-text)" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; font-weight: 600;">Prologue, The Survivors</span></p><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql oi732d6d ik7dh3pa fgxwclzu jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id" color="var(--primary-text)" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;">(for Jane Harper)</span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql oi732d6d ik7dh3pa fgxwclzu jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id" color="var(--primary-text)" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"></span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql oi732d6d ik7dh3pa fgxwclzu jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id" color="var(--primary-text)" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;">The sun goes down and stays down,</span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql oi732d6d ik7dh3pa fgxwclzu jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id" color="var(--primary-text)" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;">The sky unwrapping itself, pure sound.</span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql oi732d6d ik7dh3pa fgxwclzu jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id" color="var(--primary-text)" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>If you’re going to do it ––</i></span> She looks up.</span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql oi732d6d ik7dh3pa fgxwclzu jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id" color="var(--primary-text)" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;">She tells him of the weather they’ll be having,</span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql oi732d6d ik7dh3pa fgxwclzu jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id" color="var(--primary-text)" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;">Noticing the birds shrieking and circling the cliffs.</span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql oi732d6d ik7dh3pa fgxwclzu jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id" color="var(--primary-text)" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;">She stands in the shallows, swaying, the weather is inside her,</span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql oi732d6d ik7dh3pa fgxwclzu jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id" color="var(--primary-text)" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;">Lifts her skirts above the incoming tide,</span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql oi732d6d ik7dh3pa fgxwclzu jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id" color="var(--primary-text)" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;">She hasn’t given up on her art, or on wanting to live a good life.</span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql oi732d6d ik7dh3pa fgxwclzu jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id" color="var(--primary-text)" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;">She wants to make things that count, things that are new.</span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql oi732d6d ik7dh3pa fgxwclzu jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id" color="var(--primary-text)" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;">Despite what is going to happen next, dreamlight and darkness,</span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql oi732d6d ik7dh3pa fgxwclzu jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id" color="var(--primary-text)" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>If you’re going to do it ––</i></span></span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql oi732d6d ik7dh3pa fgxwclzu jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id" color="var(--primary-text)" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;">She moves towards him.</span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql oi732d6d ik7dh3pa fgxwclzu jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id" color="var(--primary-text)" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;">You know those nights, you think you lie awake and never sleep?</span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql oi732d6d ik7dh3pa fgxwclzu jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id" color="var(--primary-text)" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;">And then the morning comes, you lie there, blinking,</span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql oi732d6d ik7dh3pa fgxwclzu jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id" color="var(--primary-text)" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;">Thick with the memory of dreaming.</span></div>Penni Russonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17956453252195293843noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23502762.post-46336292761662438222021-01-01T22:12:00.004+11:002021-01-01T22:12:35.693+11:00Conjunction <p><br /></p><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="epl0c" data-offset-key="bqtn7-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="bqtn7-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="bqtn7-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">We should be leaving the moon</span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="epl0c" data-offset-key="2su94-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2su94-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="2su94-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">In yesterday’s year,</span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="epl0c" data-offset-key="1kc0b-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1kc0b-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="1kc0b-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">It saw too much</span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="epl0c" data-offset-key="8chup-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8chup-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="8chup-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">And could not look away.</span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="epl0c" data-offset-key="6s9b1-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6s9b1-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="6s9b1-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="epl0c" data-offset-key="78s8h-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="78s8h-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="78s8h-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">A fresh wind springs up,</span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="epl0c" data-offset-key="fuqmu-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="fuqmu-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="fuqmu-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">A murmuring older than hills,</span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="epl0c" data-offset-key="4jgld-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4jgld-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="4jgld-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">The veil of smoke has lifted,</span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="epl0c" data-offset-key="at43-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="at43-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="at43-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Everything new is old again.</span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="epl0c" data-offset-key="bsghl-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="bsghl-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="bsghl-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="epl0c" data-offset-key="qjtq-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="qjtq-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="qjtq-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Saturn: hold on to your suffering</span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="epl0c" data-offset-key="cu65d-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="cu65d-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="cu65d-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Jupiter: believe in miracles</span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="epl0c" data-offset-key="8tis4-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8tis4-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="8tis4-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Earth: sometimes it's necessary to be in it</span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="epl0c" data-offset-key="37pfc-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="37pfc-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="37pfc-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Dust: never settle</span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="epl0c" data-offset-key="73qbn-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="73qbn-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="73qbn-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="epl0c" data-offset-key="o7f5-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="o7f5-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="o7f5-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Moon: Reduce your fears and anxieties,</span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="epl0c" data-offset-key="2mog2-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2mog2-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="2mog2-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">The rest will help you.</span></div></div>Penni Russonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17956453252195293843noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23502762.post-76449623999133208372020-05-20T21:54:00.001+10:002020-05-20T21:54:30.386+10:00Golden Love Triange Suite<style class="WebKit-mso-list-quirks-style">
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<i style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">For C––</i></div>
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<i style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">You know who you are.</i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">1. TWILIGHT</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">Jake<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">Change, Bella.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">This is not your life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">Their burdens cannot keep you on the earth,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">You love me too,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">You see it!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">I can touch the clouds<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">But I can't handle the darkness.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">It does not matter<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">Everything has changed<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">And what do you do?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">Bella is your favourite animal.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">But who is the lost wolf?</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">Bella<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">Because it happens often,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">Because it will be him every time<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">And always like this,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">Take me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">Please don’t make me choose.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">Why am I covered in feathers?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">Destroying everything, destroying the world,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">I didn't realize I was crying <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">until it was time to watch the sound.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">I prefer a night without darkness,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">where we will never see the stars.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">Edward<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">In the middle of the night<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">My life was rough and unchanging.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">Tell me my name before you go to bed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">I always have to stay in the middle of the night.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">Despite an ideal day, it should always end<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">How does the sun shine now?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">If you can dream, it will be up to you,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">Spending time with you is not enough.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">2. <span style="font-size: small;">THE HUNGER GAMES</span></span><span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif; font-size: small;"> </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">Gale<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">Twelfth sky, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">how do you think this problem will be solved?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">Maybe like everyone else, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">I expect the answer to hang on a tree. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">I’m in trouble and this is the only way <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">To attract your attention.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">He will kiss you. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">You should not forget. It looks like this.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">The ways they hate each other,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">Know how I treated you,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">I feel this as I watch your kissing kiss.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">I searched for ideas and secret despair. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">Boys and girls visited the forest and were inseparable. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">Are these boys and girls happy?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">What would happen if there were no women in the capital? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">I'm fine with you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">Honestly, I can live almost alone.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">Peeta<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">Well, this is the girl I always remembered. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">Staying beautiful is not a weakness,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">Something you have to deal with.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">No, it happened.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">When the song ended, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">I knew that I was done. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">The birds keep listening.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">You love me. Real or not real? Really or not? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">True? Do I love you so much it is true? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">How tired are you?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">As for kissing!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">I swear all the birds in the window are silent.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">People tend to be a burden. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">I’m fine. I know you are here.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">Katniss<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">I do volunteer work.</span></i><span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">I put up my hand. <i>I volunteer as PR!</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">What am I doing? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">I raised my hand <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">as if to remind me of the black and white wings that I wear.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">Just kidding.</span></i><span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;"> I don’t like this language, let’s be honest.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">Later I was there, broken and small, with a thousand eyes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">Then someone in the band laughed,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">Take a deep breath, three fingers. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">If I believe he is dead, I will not return to the forest.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">Survival is not a fire of anger and hatred. There are <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">many flames. I want to be a dry spring. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">The yellow spring is yellow. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">Until you lose, life goes on. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">Life should be good again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">I want to sleep in the open window. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">Your hands were there to please <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">and your lips were finally healed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">This is what you and I do. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">Protect yourself.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">3. LITTLE WOMEN<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">Jo<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">Jo decides to forgive Amy and forget about the mistake.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">That is all.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">Laurie<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">I love you, I am you,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">And you must listen to me. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">I couldn't help it, you were very good for me, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">I ask and I answer. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">Now listen listen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">I know what you did, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">but the girls are so sad <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">when they say yes, they say no.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">I thought you were thinking but it didn’t help,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">I loved you so much that I loved you <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">And I didn’t complain.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">Think about it now, but there comes a time <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">when you have to take care of something, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">love it, live and die. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">I know you in your way would recommend it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">Oh, is that so? Okay. Forget it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">Great. I’m fine.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">Amy<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">Shame on your do-nothing hand, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">I know I have no right to tell you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">Yes, love her every day if you want,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">But don’t throw away the gift of her refusal.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">No need to say more,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">I know you're awake,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">And a man.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">This is the patience of girls.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">4. DAWSON’S CREEK<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">Joey <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">You, who will be happy in the process<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">have to love what you do.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">We are all parents of strangers,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">In fact, love does strange things to you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">I’m tired of dancing around big words<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">I want to be honest with you:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">You were born and died, and made many mistakes in between<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">And I didn’t want to do this simple route<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">Because I realized that if I lived here, I would be stronger. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">I need to know more about that. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">We grow up into small accidents in life<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">We continue to change our mind and even our heart.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">In general, forgiveness is the only real thing we offer.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">Dawson<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">Are you ready for everything you kiss?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">You do remember.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">I want to laugh, I want to laugh,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">I don't want to write a poem about love.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">It ends,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">But at the same time, it lasts forever.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">Be heartfelt and full of heart.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">You see,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">Why not stop it?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif;">There is a real need for this,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Penni Russonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17956453252195293843noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23502762.post-67475787387727977492020-03-31T13:53:00.001+11:002020-03-31T15:36:40.096+11:00Lesson 2: How do I weave all my ideas into a story?<b>I have lots of fragments of ideas, but how do I bring all these snippets together into a story?</b><br />
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I outsourced this one to Twitter.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue;">Pick the ideas that provide great turning points. And the ones that give it a twist. Throw out the rest and start writing. Add fresh ideas as they come.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue;">@WilkinsonCarole</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue;">I like to take a few idea snippets that aren't naturally matchy, and see what happens when I stick them together. Usually, good story grows in the gaps between them.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue;">@twitofalili</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue;">Write down every snippet, every idea - always. If they don't pertain to any current story, just dump them into a file (I call mine The Abyss because I loved that movie & it was released when my file started). If you're ever stuck for an idea or direction, look in the file.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue;">@iekenner</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue;">Put the ideas onto separate sticky notes than arrange them into groups which feel like they belong together. Then summarise each group onto new sticky notes and discard the originals. Then take these new sticky notes and form them into a sequence or timeline.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue;">@Drdrdr09</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue;">Sometimes, when you take two unrelated story ideas and bang them together, you get sparks.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue;">@michaeljpryor</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue;">I have fragments of sea glass, interesting stones, gumnuts and nibbled-on leaves scattered on shelves around the house. They’re tiny treasures with little purpose; much like the story ideas I jot down simply because daydreaming is so fun. It all exercises creative muscle.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue;">@shellwrites</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue;">I write vignettes around interests and then step back to find the bigger picture. I think this is a natural process for poets ie. an image or idea leads you into a piece, then individual pieces get shuffled and sorted to shape a collection.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue;">@wordmothers</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue;">This is such a good question. I think mine accrete around a kernel. Orchard was ‘what if kids find a magic thing and have to stop it being demolished?’ Then added a local, a newcomer, a weirdo, family, some silly things, secrets, jokes. Editing was working out which didn’t belong</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue;">I forget my snippets almost immediately, but if I remember them enough times they prove themselves worthy to make it into the first draft</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue;">@FeedTheWriter</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue;">As an editor I'd say don't take ALL of them, focus on and develop one idea through into a story. Sometimes two 'snippets' will wrap around or resonate with each other ... but you don't ever want a story to have too many ideas</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue;">@FNfromFairyland</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue;">After I have ideas that spark off each other (and discard others) I think about whose story it is first, then I think about possible structure elements to pull it all together a bit.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue;">@SherrylWriter</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue;">I... don't? I don't think that's how my story-making works. Exactly. Maybe. Now I'm confused...</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue;">@pamelahartbooks</span></span><br />
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As for me, I agree with Sherryl that character is the way forward. The novel, The Endsister, started with a conversation I had with my middle child when they were very young. I had a phrase (‘I know what an endsister is’), which immediately implied three characters: someone to say it, someone to hear it and ‘the endsister’. Who these characters are, and how this phrase changes them was key to unlocking the plot of the story (see Carole's note above about turning points). Taking some of your 'snippets' and ascribing them to characters may a way to proceed.<br />
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Also stories are dynamic: stasis and disruption. Someone once told me that the reason a river twists and turns is because water wants to be round, it wants to be a pool. Stories are like this, a chain of pools (static moments), tugged along by the current. I guess in this analogy your characters are the little leaf-boats eddying along on the surface, struggling against the odds to stay afloat.<br />
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<b>Put it into action</b><br />
Make a list of all the things you are interested in writing about, all the snippets of ideas that you have for a story. Write each one on a post it note. Now spend some time sorting through them, putting them next to each other, seeing if you get any "sparks". Collect a bunch that seem like they go together. Place the ones you discard aside for now (don't throw them away).<br />
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Now take another piece of paper and put an x on it to divide the sheet into four sections. Give each section a title: Character, Plot/Story, Theme, Imagery. Divide your ideas between them. Are there any areas that are empty? Are there too many post it notes in one section (hint: if they are all in imagery and theme and there are none in character or plot you don't have your story idea yet). Do you need to go back to your discarded pile?<br />
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Just for fun, try moving some of them around. Put things that seem like characterisation in themes, or turn images into plot. What happens if you introduce a random sticky note from your discard pile? What sort of river bends have to happen to accommodate that shift? Sometimes it's the unexpected bends and deviations that give your story momentum.<br />
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Once you're happy that you have a bit of a spread across the four domains and you can see your story coming into shape, try arranging your sticky notes into a beginning, a middle, and an end. Or just start writing. Stuck at the first words? Open a book to a random page, find a word or a phrase and use it to begin. I'll do another mini lesson on finding/constructing a narrative voice soon.<br />
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<br />Penni Russonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17956453252195293843noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23502762.post-73520000925987497682020-03-28T10:50:00.001+11:002020-03-31T13:54:02.929+11:00Lesson One: Showing and Telling<b>How do I balance showing and telling in (especially) genre fiction like fantasy and sci fi. How do I reveal plot points in a short story?</b><br />
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<b><i>Warning this passage contains minor spoilers for Kelly Link's <a href="https://kellylink.net/books/magic-for-beginners-old/the-faery-handbag">The Faery Handbag</a>. You may want to read it first. </i></b><br />
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There are two things at play here. How much do you need to tell? (That is, can you leave things implied? Unsaid? Mysterious?) Or if you do need to reveal information in a straightforward way, at one point should you do that? Can it be trickled in, or is it easier if you just drop it on the page and have it out there. Here’s an example of a story that focuses on worldbuilding first, <a href="https://kellylink.net/books/magic-for-beginners-old/the-faery-handbag">The Faery Handbag</a> It’s a long short story (8000 words). But the first 566 or so words (7%) sets up place, character and atmosphere (creating a sense of magical possibility without stepping over into full fantasy). Then the next group of sentences set up the transition into the main premise of the story.<br />
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EXERCISE: Print out the first 673 words (up to ‘But it’s true’.) With a pen in your hand, do a straight line underneath sentences, phrases or images that feel very grounded in the real world, familiar and realistic. Use a wibbly line to mark passages, images or phrases that feel other-worldly or imbued in magical possibility. See how the author does the work of both drawing you into the world of the story by anchoring you with concrete imagery and opening up new possibilities to take the reader where she needs them to go by implying a heightened reality, or strangeness within the familiar.<br />
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It’s at the 5724 word mark (71% into the story) that we are told exactly what this narrator’s problem is, what the big problem that drives the story is and even then this problem never gets completely solved in the story – the story is about the slow reveal of the world. Sometimes the whole story is really just about revealing the story so far.<br />
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<a href="https://www.griffithreview.com/articles/black-swan-event/">Black Swan Event </a>by Margo Lanagan relies on some prior knowledge of fairy tales. Maybe you have that knowledge, maybe you don’t. Does the story come together for you? Try using the same technique from above – identifying the grounding passages and the more defamiliarizing or mysterious passages. How does the story deviate from your expectations, how does it meet it? Does the setting make the story more or less strange?<br />
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Writing exercise:<br />
1. Set a timer for five minutes. Make a list of abstract nouns (awe, courage, law, love etc). Find a method for randomly choosing one. (Cut them up and put them in a hat, ask someone else to choose one for you, close your eyes and point...) This is the theme of your story.<br />
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2. Draw a map of somewhere you know well. It could be your own street, a route you take every day (such as your trip to work, uni or school), a wild place you used to play in as a child. Take your time over the map. Put in as much detail as you can. Annotate it with memories and story snippets (birdseed lady's house, barking dog etc).<br />
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3. Take a fairy tale and write out the main plot points and motifs. For example, Hansel and Gretel: poverty, cruel or weak parents, pebbles shining in the moonlight, birds and breadcrumbs, a candy house, a stranger, a bird cage, an oven, gold).<br />
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4. Combine your personal map with the fairy tale story twists and turns and motifs (you may, like Margo Lanagan's story, take up long after the original story leaves off, or you may, like Kelly Link, repurpose one specific motif to create an original fairy tale) to tell a story that explores your theme.Penni Russonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17956453252195293843noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23502762.post-68693132491075566092019-01-12T22:02:00.000+11:002019-01-12T22:02:01.004+11:00Story Dark<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;">
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<span style="color: #212121; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;">You have a composer (gate in my heart)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212121; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;">I go, continue, love and do everything<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212121; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;">You can also enjoy the environment<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212121; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;">You are not currently logged in<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;">You are not logged in. You are not connected.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;">It is impossible to hunt the secret, anything<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;">We can say<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;">I am the subject (nothing zero)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;">That's what you do<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;">I'm going, I'm going, I love and I'm doing everything<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;">You mean a bit<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;">You are not logged in<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;">You are not connected.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;">You have a writer (my heart gate)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;">Strangely, the stars are far away<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;">You can also enjoy the surroundings<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;">You will not agree. There is no relationship.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;">The arrest is wrong<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;">Here's what you are doing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;">You are the author (I'm in my heart)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;">Remote checklist<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;">There is no relationship.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;">I'm going, going, doing everything<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;">On the topic (no one)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;">You are talking a little<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;">You can also be satisfied with the environment.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;">We can talk<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;">You're not connected.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;">---</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Note: each stanza was fed through a line randomiser and then back and forth through Google translate. The poem began as lines taken from <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/49493/i-carry-your-heart-with-mei-carry-it-in">my favourite ee cummings poem </a></span></span></div>
<br />Penni Russonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17956453252195293843noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23502762.post-55834003384403145282019-01-08T22:28:00.001+11:002019-01-08T22:28:35.689+11:00Piéta<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><i>after Rilke</i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">And we grow old<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Now fill my bowl and the previous thought is<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">stop being a child.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">I scratch like a rock<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Naturalness<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">about the great pain.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">It gets hard in your heart.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Now you push against my stomach <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">so big.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">I am stone. I just know<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">my heart now completely.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Now I can not go back with you.</span></div>
Penni Russonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17956453252195293843noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23502762.post-6048200356799636182019-01-07T09:44:00.001+11:002019-01-07T09:44:06.971+11:00The waitress weeps at the all you can eat buffet<div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm;">
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Sans"; font-size: 9pt;">Salad bar, cold meat, bread rolls,<br />hot meat, prawn cocktail,<br />curries in the bain marie.<br /><br />Pavlova, trifle, peppermint mousse,<br />Hot pudding, custard,<br />bowls of whipped cream.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Sans"; font-size: 9pt;">that look across the smoking deck<br />to the sprinklers on the rolling green<br />the tennis courts, the bridge over </span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Lucida Sans;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">'Excuse me,' </span></span></div>
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<span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Sans"; font-size: 12px;">'Can you tell me where</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Lucida Sans;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">'Are you local?' </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Lucida Sans;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">the waitress replies.</span></span></div>
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What she wants to know is:</div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Lucida Sans;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Is this really all that you can eat?</span></span></div>
<br />Penni Russonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17956453252195293843noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23502762.post-42174863710551573472019-01-04T22:04:00.001+11:002019-01-04T22:07:00.678+11:00Ferry CrossingTime comes upon us in waves<br />
the surge of the dream<br />
the sun is slow and hot<br />
our thoughts are beneath us<br />
we rest to the rhythm<br />
of our own sea-pulse<br />
the sky is blank with forgetting<br />
what we've left behind<br />
the day curves, never arrives,<br />
always departing.<br />
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<br />Penni Russonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17956453252195293843noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23502762.post-62896167210391235282019-01-03T20:04:00.000+11:002019-01-03T20:04:26.272+11:00Is this the poem?<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB">this is first thought of the poem<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">of the</span> thought this is first poem</div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">first the poem of this is thought<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">this first poem is of the thought <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">is this the first thought poem of<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">is thought the first poem of this<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">of this poem is the thought first</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span>this is the first poem of thought</div>
Penni Russonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17956453252195293843noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23502762.post-45372534360795510492019-01-03T00:08:00.001+11:002019-01-03T00:08:38.819+11:00Bird Embraced<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>vale</i> Mirka Mora </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">She, who was always a bird,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">lived here as a member of our family. We held her,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">human-sized,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">gently around her neck, wanting her to sit with us<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">as we watched TV, read the Sunday papers, made pictures,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">sewed, mixed a cake, dressed and undressed in the brown light. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">These were the main activities of our home.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">On the kitchen windowsill there were lemons,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">papery garlic, a cup full of paintbrushes. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Mother looked out, over the sink, to the tops of trees.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">The inside light was the colour of the river<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">seen from underneath.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Sometimes we squabbled, not wanting to take turns,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">pulling her between us, begging her to sleep on our beds, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">eat from our bowls, swim in our baths, shadow our footsteps.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">We fought over which one of us she loved the best.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">She loved us all silently, the quick heat of her heart <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">in her fluttering breast.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">We never opened the windows. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">We never left a door ajar.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Nevertheless, the parting.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">One morning: an early wind rushed in, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">we woke and knew she was gone.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">She was in the tree outside, her eye was closed to dream.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">All of them, my sisters and brothers,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">were in the trees around the house, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">I ran from window to window, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">pressing myself against the glass.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">We had lived together for a long time,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">and so I thought of her all that day.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">The birds called to each other</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">to love forever and ever.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">I told myself I would learn </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">to do everything by feel, walking</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">the inside walls of the house </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">with my eyes closed, </span>clicking my tongue like a bat,</div>
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trying to sense the edge of shadows,</div>
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the rippling of light,</div>
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in the dimness of the underneath.</div>
Penni Russonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17956453252195293843noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23502762.post-61849909661327904122019-01-01T21:37:00.001+11:002019-01-01T21:53:39.048+11:00Phases<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;">
(For Emmett, neé Una)</div>
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<br /></div>
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He tells me:</div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">if it’s a phase<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">What makes a girl?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">How do you find <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">The shoulder, the heel,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Thirteen years ago<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">arms folded like bat wings,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">it’s a girl, they told me<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">unpeeling <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">in a tide of blood<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">what makes a boy,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">how do you find the end<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">the crown of the head, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Penni Russonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17956453252195293843noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23502762.post-59277024837507035392018-01-05T00:46:00.000+11:002018-01-05T00:46:30.698+11:00Living Dead<div class="MsoNormal">
<i>Why am I still watching Zombie movies?</i></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">1<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">We’re always
surrounded by difficult ideas<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">vivid and pulsing, the
insides of things, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">barely concealed by
the outsides of things.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">It’s nice to know
there’s some kind of order:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Follow the rules. Lock
the front door.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Keep things tidy. Keep
yourself nice.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Have a plan, stay
close to home.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">That’s what separates
us from the monsters.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">It’s not what your
hair looks like,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">it’s the effort you
put in each morning,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">it’s the time you
spent on your hands and knees<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">scrubbing the blood
out of the carpet.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">2<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
It’s not about surviving, it’s about love.</div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">I mean sure, sometimes
it seems better<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">on the other side, the
elegance of pure appetite,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">the momentum of a
single relentless idea.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Sometimes you gaze out
the car window, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">the engine running,
outside the seven-eleven,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">and wonder what it’s
all for, the instinct for living,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">startled by your own
pinkness, the flush of mortality,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">the sweetness on the palate of the </span>tongue,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">the prickling of the
skin – heat, cold.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">You wonder what it’s
like to be dead.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">You wonder what it’s
like to be alive.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><a href="http://honeyimages.com.au/">Kristin</a> asked the question.</i></div>
Penni Russonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17956453252195293843noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23502762.post-90932381995593560252018-01-03T22:51:00.003+11:002018-01-03T22:58:09.855+11:00Helicopter<div class="MsoNormal">
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">In the middle of night’s<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">expanding hours,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">light sweeps around the room.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">I am woken by the sky machine,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">dreaming my dream, searching <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">the river’s dark unconscious</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
for the shadows of hidden men.</div>
</div>
Penni Russonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17956453252195293843noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23502762.post-1321393089774905352018-01-02T23:12:00.002+11:002018-01-02T23:12:39.001+11:00Fairy tale<div class="MsoNormal">
A wound, drawn by hand,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">spilling the memory the body forgot,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">insides and outsides, all of a one.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">She considers her own image,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">the book is a mirror.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">The crooked scar hums with possibility.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">The poem tastes salty, sweet. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">Manifest destiny.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">Fluctuations in heart rate and breathing,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">visceral sensation and so on.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">There is a crossing over, a voyage, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">and a world beneath the world,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">not a retreat but a way of negotiating
pain,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">negotiating with the Agent of Pain,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">who tells her she’s done nothing<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">to earn her own suffering<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">and puts her to work <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">witnessing the suffering of others,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">day in, day out, until her jaw aches<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">from the horror she doesn’t have the
language</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
to expel.</div>
Penni Russonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17956453252195293843noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23502762.post-25926796808475331952018-01-01T21:23:00.000+11:002018-01-01T21:33:43.628+11:00New Year, Alphington<div class="MsoNormal">
The river runs out of time,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">which is the source.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">A memory </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">held in the body<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">not the mind,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">the slow ease of pain<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">always below the surface.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">The river is fast <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">and slow, new<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">and old. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">Light, light,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">the dappling of time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">The body is multiple<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">with surfaces, leaning in<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">to listen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">Where there is time</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
there is always music.</div>
Penni Russonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17956453252195293843noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23502762.post-91256396630994675882017-09-25T21:41:00.000+10:002017-09-25T21:41:44.725+10:00 13 Ways of Looking at a Possum<span style="font-size: x-small;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" />ADVICEPOEM</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">for Andrew MacDonald</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span>
<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">There’s a possum in my roof.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">More importantly:</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">I’m scared of it. Helpoem?</span></i><br />
<br />
(with apologies to Wallace Stevens)<br />
<br />
I<br />
Among twenty suburban houses<br />
The only thing truly awake<br />
Is the possum. <br />
<br />
II<br />
I am in three minds<br />
And all of them<br />
Are afraid of the possum.<br />
<br />
III<br />
The possum whirled on the telegraph wire<br />
It was a small part, but he made it his own.<br />
His agent said it would lead to bigger things.<br />
<br />
IV<br />
A man and a woman <br />
Are one thing. <br />
A man and a woman and a possum<br />
Are quite another.<br />
But a man and a man<br />
Or a woman and a woman<br />
Who want to get married<br />
Should be equal in the eyes of the law.<br />
<br />
V<br />
I do not know which to prefer, <br />
Inflections or innuendos.<br />
The possum’s guttural growl, <br />
Or just after. <br />
Well obviously, it’s better<br />
After the possum shuts up.<br />
Except then you lie awake, tense,<br />
Waiting for it to start again.<br />
Bloody possum.<br />
<br />
VI<br />
The shadow of the possum<br />
Is the shadow of casual hatred.<br />
The possum despises you,<br />
And everything you stand for.<br />
Your human privilege.<br />
The inheritance of shame<br />
Is a burden and a gift. Atone.<br />
<br />
VII<br />
O thin man of Elwood, <br />
Why do you imagine the possum?<br />
The possum is the void.<br />
It lives in your thoughts<br />
and in her thoughts,<br />
but it does not dwell in its own thoughts.<br />
<br />
VIII<br />
The possum involves itself <br />
In what you know<br />
Even in the middle of the afternoon<br />
In the midst of rational human activity,<br />
The possum intrudes –<br />
Its animal intuition,<br />
Stuttering, scratching.<br />
Scraping at the threshold<br />
Of consciousness.<br />
<br />
IX<br />
When the possum<br />
Marked the edge <br />
Of one of many circles,<br />
I was like WTF?<br />
That’s really weird.<br />
I’m not sure why the possum would do that. <br />
<br />
X<br />
At the sight of possums<br />
Flying in a green light,<br />
It became clear<br />
They were probably up to something.<br />
<br />
XI<br />
He drives up the Nepean Highway.<br />
He sees something on the road<br />
And swerves.<br />
But it’s not a possum.<br />
Just the shadow of a possum.<br />
He’s thinking of getting a Prius.<br />
<br />
XII<br />
The river is moving<br />
To the outer suburbs.<br />
It’s heard about this place<br />
Near the end of the Hurstbridge Line<br />
That’s like Northcote in the country.<br />
The possums are kind of being arseholes about it.<br />
The river tries to ignore them<br />
But deep down it thinks<br />
Maybe it can’t hack it in the suburbs after all.<br />
<br />
<br />
XIII<br />
It was evening all afternoon. <br />
Who knows what the weather was doing<br />
Or going to do.<br />
The possum ran out of its hole<br />
And said, there are many truths.<br />
You dream a little<br />
And feel the rising of the dark.Penni Russonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17956453252195293843noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23502762.post-11617589689774948912017-03-08T11:26:00.002+11:002017-03-08T15:48:26.975+11:00Why Did I Say Yes?<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">For <a href="https://twitter.com/mimbles?lang=en">Miriam Mulcahy</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">In everyday life, ask more questions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">There’s a rule to live by.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">Questions about the form and technique of
living:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">how do you read a poem or get the scum out
of a coffee cup? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">You try hard.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">Read the cutlery drawer as it was written:
left to right, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">past to future, imagination to critical
thought.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">The forks think themselves into a confused
pattern,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">knives live so simply, like monks or
soldiers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">The spoons reflect the absurd world.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">The thing is, you want to be surprised by
life<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">amid the dailiness of routine. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">Wash the dishes, dry the dishes, eat the
dishes,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">talk about the dishes. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">You are noisy <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">in your sleep<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">and when you wake up<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">you are awake.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">Yes is the word that speaks your name,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">that speaks the body of your name,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">your body’s name. It speaks the woman<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">left behind in the twentieth century, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">deciding on the place of cutlery in the
history<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">of the kitchen drawer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">Knives, assemble!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">She closes the drawer on our open-mouthed
other selves.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">You said yes because you always said yes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">locked outside your spoonself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">No is in the release<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">of the tip of the tongue<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">currently stuck to the roof of your mouth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">Did you say yes? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">Or did they hear what they wanted to hear<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">in the din</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">the scraping of the plates,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">the clamouring of cups,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">the high pitched screaming</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">of the forks.</span></div>
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Penni Russonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17956453252195293843noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23502762.post-87406577610380080072017-02-18T09:05:00.000+11:002017-02-18T09:13:24.726+11:00Avery's dream<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span lang="EN-GB">and he was my friend again.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-GB"><br /></span>
<span lang="EN-GB">(after telling me this, he went back to his breakfast. Then he looked up and said: I've got a big day today. The birds are teaching me how to fly. The bears are teaching me how to fight. And the bulls are teaching me how to release my anger.)</span></div>
Penni Russonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17956453252195293843noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23502762.post-4030293901284223682017-01-31T22:32:00.003+11:002017-01-31T22:36:57.231+11:00why sometimes when I am driving do I feel like I am in a movie?<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">For <a href="http://www.simmonehowell.com/">Simmone Howell</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">My character is ‘driving woman’</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I’m not sure of my motivation</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">there may be a dead man in the trunk</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I glance at my child in the rear vision mirror</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">possibly I have repressed memories</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of being a trained assassin</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the houses I’m passing are painted houses</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">nothing has depth</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">nothing is its own true colour</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I glance in the mirror again</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the back seat is empty</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">at this exact moment</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the car slides past</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">an exact duplicate of myself</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">waiting to cross the road</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It’s like a movie</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">but the reality</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I’m driving</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I’m not sure of my motivation</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the car is doing the thinking for me</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">it really is real life</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">cars stretched to the horizon</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">honking to each other like wild geese</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">we all get out</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">stand on our cars</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and sing</span>Penni Russonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17956453252195293843noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23502762.post-18039509822283644102017-01-30T22:39:00.000+11:002017-01-30T22:39:07.973+11:00In the deep dark of the night, how do I let go of my fear?<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">For <a href="http://lefa.com.au/about/">Lefa</a>, with love</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">There is so much to fear </span></span><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">how will the work of it ever be </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">thoroughly </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">done </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">in the half-felt, incomplete hours? </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">She gets up in
the night, pulls on her dressing gown, <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">scuffs her
feet across the floor (</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">past the
picnickers in the hall)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">to the kitchen to make some
kind of soup. </span></span><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Salt, salt, pepper, salt.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">She lays a
cloth napkin across her knees </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and sips from a spoon. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Salt, salt,
pepper salt: </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It tastes of childhood, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">the
combination flavours of safety and harm.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It is natural
to be afraid, says the shadow, who has followed her<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">from the
bedroom (past the picnickers in the hall)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">and sits
across the table from her, watching the spoon break<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">the surface of
the soup. She folds the napkin and pats <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">at the corners
of her mouth. Salt, salt, pepper, salt.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In the morning
the soup pan, the bowl, the spoon, the napkin,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">have all been
cleared away. </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">She tastes dread in her throat, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">salt, salt, pepper, salt, the flavour </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">of the waking dream.</span></div>
Penni Russonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17956453252195293843noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23502762.post-73417330327494549902017-01-30T11:32:00.002+11:002017-01-30T11:35:01.534+11:00How Can I Be In Two Places At Once?<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Unless you are
a bird <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">history
entering <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the panelled eye<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">time is colour<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">light is
memory</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">migrating by heart<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">led by the wing</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">but there is
only one bird <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of all places<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">who cares nothing</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">for what is a bird </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">place </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">sticks and feathers </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">made and unmade</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">you sleep </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">standing up</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">on the wind</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">---</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This poem is a temporal anomaly because it is yesterday's poem published today.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It is for my friend Kate Clifford, long time Internet companion and all round excellent human, who asked 'How can I be in two places at once?' </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The bird comes from Boyle Roche, an Irish politician in the late 1700s infamously said, "Mr. Speaker, it is impossible I could have been in two places at once, unless I were a bird." While Roche was famous for mixed metaphors and malapropisms, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boyle_Roche#Boyle_Roche.27s_bird">in this case he was quoting lines from a play</a>.</span></div>
Penni Russonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17956453252195293843noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23502762.post-81291512531315582272017-01-28T17:50:00.001+11:002017-01-28T17:50:14.857+11:00Guess Who<div>
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duck?’</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">He waits. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">When she doesn’t say anything, </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">he’s forced to say, </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">‘What?’</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">The puppies tumble over each other,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">rubbing against the cage, purring like
kittens.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">She stands up, walks over to the counter.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">The puppies whine.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">‘One leg is both the same,’ she says.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">He frowns, thinking about it,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">he’s about to ask her to explain it,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">but she is already gone. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">The puppies are bereft,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">they sleep all afternoon,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">and at the end of the day, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">though it’s against the rules,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">he takes one of them home,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">a Groodle he temporarily names Ernest.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">He tells his housemates about the girl, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">holding the puppy on his lap,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">and they have lots of questions, like<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">‘Was she wearing glasses?’ </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">‘Did she have
red hair?’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">‘Did she have a big nose?’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">and he says, ‘well I guess</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">that’s a matter of
opinion.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">And then they start asking different questions, like<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">‘Would she take a long time to choose a
video in a rental store?’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">And ‘If she was a celebrity, would she
release a perfume?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">And would she name it after herself?’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">And he says ‘listen,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">she was the kind of girl who’d walk into a
pet shop<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">and say, <i>just the usual thanks.</i>'</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">He lets Ernest sleep on his bed</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">and the next day, takes him back to the store.</span></div>
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*Penny wrote: <span style="color: blue;">Could you walk into a pet shop and say "Just the usual thanks"? Actually, this is a great question for playing Subjective Guess Who. Maybe not for poems.</span><br />Penni Russonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17956453252195293843noreply@blogger.com0