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The Them that’s a We

Body Preach The neck spoke first: The muscles here— so tight with the shoulders in a way the grandmothers— who lay down with toil and breathed the breath of labor, laboring,— in a way that…

MelindaSeptember 2, 2025

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When Your Dragonfly Grew

My friend, the artist Marina Powdermaker, would have turned 64 next week. I can't quite believe it's been 5 years since she left. It is for us—those left living—to honor our beloved dead by telling…

MelindaAugust 22, 2025

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Reach for the Bus Crayon

The Bus Crayon There will be a morning you won’t reach for the black rectangle with the white apple on its face. You won’t instruct your finger to slide…

MelindaJuly 30, 2025

Family Healing Hope Mindfulness Nature Parenting Poem Poetry Writing

Writing can be therapeutic, but it's work nonetheless. Sending woven words out into the world to be judged is a practice in growing thicker skin. For every published piece there are dozens of rejections. Though I've…

MelindaJuly 21, 2025

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Woman, Circle, Poem

Late May greetings! I’ve just had two poems published in a lovely new online magazine, “Soul Poetry, Prose and Art”. Here’s the link if you’d like to check out the magazine. It's filled with…

MelindaMay 22, 2025

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A Happy Smattering of Weirdness

Perfectly Imperfect I read a good amount of poetry. Some comes to me in literary journals and books, some shows up in various online forums. I’m drawn to writing that is accessible, creative and real.…

MelindaMay 19, 2025

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When God is a Bird

This one is for the mothers. When God is a Bird The feeders out back bring more color this month— goldfinches blossoming from marsh-like greeny gray to forsythia yellow, a red-winged blackbird flashing…

MelindaMay 11, 2025

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Through the Window

Through the Window New buds adorn the ratty something-or-other bush. Does it mind being unnamed? No, comes the echo of an answer. My life outside your window does not revolve around what you might call…

MelindaApril 21, 2025

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April is…..

April is Autism Awareness Month and also National Poetry Month, two topics about which I am passionate. I ought to have lots to write and say and post, but here we are almost two thirds…

MelindaApril 19, 2025

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Up and Out

Up and Out More garrulous gazing at the navel of the world. It was morning, one of a long string of them spent on the couch, post-surgical leg consistently elevated. My eyes lifted to my…

MelindaJanuary 6, 2025

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