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grief

  • carl dean dolly parton

    Like a breath of spring.

    A few years ago, I submitted this poem to an anthology about your queen and mine, Dolly Parton. It wasn’t selected, but this seems like a good time to share it. Spent…

  • Welcome 2023. I guess.

    Crawling into bed at 12:01 this morning, Jan. 1, I realized that my elderly dachshund had pooed on the sheets. Not all over the sheets, but he’d done a drive-by wipe on…

  • Grief and walnuts.

    Today, Walter tried walnuts for the first time. I was making pumpkin bars and carefully scavenged through the bag of walnuts. I tried to find the pieces that were mostly intact halves,…