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Days 8 – 12 of the PAD chapbook challenge
I had been wrestling with so many things the last few days, my novel included, I just couldn’t settle my brain down enough for poems. And then it all came in a rush. You know, where your soul is cracked and something happens to pry it open and everything just pours out? Yeah, like that. […]
It’s not even about the acts themselves.
Posted by Leslie in Beyond Meanderings on November 1, 2009
It brought to mind a man from a neighboring county that introduced himself while I was eating lunch during the summer when I was doing adwork for the newspaper. He found out I was a reporter and promptly said, “I have a story for you. It’s a discrimination case.” I said, “Oh yeah?” and he […]
Bohemian: the ironic twist to my comfort food column
Posted by Leslie in Beyond Meanderings, Poetry on October 17, 2009
While I was blessed that things stopped where they began, there is a deeper irony in the comfort derived from Czech food than my column could allow. My hope is that in sharing this poem, originally posted at Poetic Asides as a prompt for “a personal interaction,” my readers will connect with something concrete in […]
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A burgeoning writer and journalist, I am currently reporting for the Ozarks Sentinel newspaper. I wanted to create a place to talk about the pink elephants trumpeting in rooms across the globe.
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