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Hendrix After Thirty Years
There are a couple of students here at this faculty party who weren't born
when Hendrix died, and at least one couple too old to understand what the
fuss is about ("Buddy Holly!" he shouts, "hasn't anybody here
heard of Buddy Holly?"). But the rest of us are Sixties Children, all
with our Hendrix memories and attitudes, and we're rapt before the TV.
David Graham
Not a Ghost Story
The whole area grew to have a reputation for being haunted. People kept
seeing the shade of a one-legged man peering from the empty windows, or two
slender, graceful shadows walking through the lower meadow. Just harmless
romanticism.
Sherri Linn Kline
working with wet ones
i got to do an intervention today on a real drunk, who has scheduled and
blown three appointments to get an assessment down there in nenana. he keeps
showing up intoxicated. he can't understand why i think this is a problem.
kat mcelroy
Marigold Crowns: Fighting for a Personal Theology
Every flower has something to say. Whole dictionaries have been dedicated
to explaining what flowers say, this being especially important when flowers
are gifts. For me, though, marigolds are not gifts whose meanings I feel compelled
to discover. Instead, they are already present in my memory's images,
their golden faces glowing.
Alice Maahs
Mother Land
Fan blades, rubber belts, levers, wires and whirs and plug-ins.
Debt, misunderstanding, lust, birth, luck. Mother turns the wheel of the possible
as she rinses each blue dish.
Anne Boyer