Living alone takes getting used to again. Time suddenly seems to be found and doubled, as well as silence. The constant pulsing of your own thoughts is the background noise, and you reach out and grasp at familiar voices, your attentive ear calls in these sounds, your eyes recreate familiar spaces. You wish to beContinue reading “Departure”
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Halloween Weekend in La Vera
There’s no better place to spend Halloween weekend than in an old, agricultural village way out in Extremadura, called Villanueva de la Vera, with houses dating back to the 1800s. These houses made of stone and wood are so old that the doorways are extremely squat, just enough for someone my height to pass through.Continue reading “Halloween Weekend in La Vera”
A Different Kind of Light
The Poets and Writers prompt for this week suggested using these words as part of a poem: promenade, mettle, flap, arbor, azimuth, heap, mast, foxgrape I hardly knew what half of those words meant. But looking them up led me to some other memories from my college days. And it ended up not being aContinue reading “A Different Kind of Light”
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