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Another January

January 15, 2022 Marlena Maduro Baraf

Photo by Angele Camp on Unsplash

Please forgive me while I clear my throat…

petulant petals pity party

Are we in purgatory?

I met with my besties on Zoom yesterday. Friends of many years, some living at significant distances. They’re listless, unfocused, cranky. Our world has shrunk again. O M I C R O N. It sounds like the plague.

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In Corona Diary, Diversity, Families, Soy/Somos, The Arts Tags the old year, the new year, forgive ourselves, Sarah Ruhl, poetry, resolutions, soy/somos, Latinos, Marjorie Agosín, Robert Bly, Langston Hughes
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All the Company I Keep

December 16, 2021 Marlena Maduro Baraf

The white heron in the old Chinese tapestry.

With winter under way and night creeping in at 4:30 in the afternoon (in New York) I have a lot of inside time at my desk. Sitting. Sitting. Sitting. So I tried this poetry exercise over many weeks.

From my kitchen window I see the hydrangea balls of winter—dry, dusty, brittle, crunchy. They’ve shrunk to little fists.
My old Nike sneakers squeak loudly on the red oak floor under my feet.

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In Corona Diary Tags Poems, poetry, William Carlos William, Home
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