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Milestones
Time is groaning on. I found out earlier this week that one of my former copy editor co-workers died last month. I guess considering his many and lengthy health problems, it was good he was able to live to the ripe old age of 61, but still, it was sobering to know that he was…
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My friend is on a book tour
Come see my wonderful friend at a bookstore near you (hopefully) as he shares with the world his collection of macabre tales: “Backwaters.” Lee Rozelle’s Book Tour His collection of short stories is shocking, horrifying and, at turns, hilarious. His comedic timing is impeccable, and if you’ve ever been to central Alabama, you will experience…
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Leaving
Leave this campground as you found it, more or less,though hard to do after nearly a decade. Acres of pine trees chipped and pressed into mountains of court-mandated legalese — one copy for me, one copy for you. An uneven moonscape, stumps jut like nubs of rotten teeth. It takes skill not to trip over…
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Marginalia
Down the path at the end of Gardenia, cut out by trespassing feet like mine, I wound next to a ravine so unmarked and unremarkable Google Maps couldn’t tell me where I’d been. At the beginning of the trail, a glimmering graveyard of plastic bottles blossoming like mushrooms feeding on damp, aluminum cans too forgotten…
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The dog meditations
I. Exhalation of doglike warm sea air with hints of what’s rotting in you, wrapped in fur laziness with doggy smell and teeth, destroyer of worlds and work, best friend and worst enemy. II. Pain comes in on puppy paws, carried in the cage of scimitar claws, snarling, eye-twitch, Let slip the dogs of war?…
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On the origin of chorizo
An Aztec medicine man, whose name has been lost to history with bushy, serious eyebrows like my grandfather – an ancestor of his? – oh that is my Anglo approximation. I don’t know their language – to wander the underworld on a fact-finding mission. He rendered his disciple fit for the journey, slitting his throat…
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Kimberly L. Wright 