Tag: memories

member name: Maura Alia Badji
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June 26, 2006 02:21 AM EDT -- Buffalo-bound     Walking through the Albright-Knox Museum-- waking sleeper in moving dream picks up the trail left thirty years before: I find my way, track childhood's promises. . . . more
July 06, 2006 10:45 PM EDT -- Calling Angels   The graveyard glowed that night, some lost planet in the moonlight.  Not so strange a place for tenderness or love. Slow we walked, no words between us. Filled the gaps . . . more
June 30, 2006 11:27 PM EDT -- Advice For The Newly Beautiful   You won't notice the change at first, the way people look at you, not through you. As though studying the cover of a promising book.   You will walk . . . more
June 26, 2006 09:10 PM EDT -- I Don't Remember Where     I was heading when the biker hailed me as I walked down the hill to Main Street, carrying a small Catholic Bible. I don't remember being on my way to . . . more
June 26, 2006 02:14 AM EDT -- Breakfast My grandfather's hands, staniatata's hands-- tin-smith's hands,are three times the size of mine. His hands circle the brown and tan mug of sweet black coffee he drinks all day. In . . . more
June 29, 2006 11:43 PM EDT -- Listening For Fish in Poughkeepsie     They hang onto my arms and legs.  As we pass the river, five children pull me to water we can't touch or swim, to wave as The Clearwater Sloop . . . more
July 05, 2006 10:41 AM EDT -- A thank you and an explanation I'd like to thank all those who have offered such thoughtful, encouraging, critical (in the best sense), cogent, deep and insightful commentary on my writing, my poetry . . . more
June 19, 2006 12:44 AM EDT -- Beautysick   When I was thin I bought new lace underwear by the handful, push-up bras, sheer hose, red high heels, tight skirts, savored feeling insubstantial skin held fast, belts pulled . . . more
June 26, 2006 10:58 PM EDT -- Lent   Jesus broke my heart the Easter I was three, left me unfit for another for years after. Each night mother lifted me to his porcelain form--Infant of Prague, miracle maker, baby boy I . . . more
July 08, 2006 11:55 PM EDT -- So long, Mr. Nick    for Alfonso Congilosi   Papa, I can't believe they shaved your white Santa beard, leaving you blank. Looking lost, and defenseless in the velvet of the casket. . . . more
June 28, 2006 09:04 AM EDT -- Spoken word tales I invite you all to send stories of your first, last, or most memorable experiences at spoken word events.  Whether you were a performer or an audience member, let's hear it.   . . . more
July 04, 2006 12:45 PM EDT -- Douglas   In your James Dean jacket so self-contained, you'd ignite, in white heat if I rubbed against you. We're a match. I'm watching a movie, watching you, again, watching you . . . more
July 05, 2006 05:50 AM EDT -- Late Valentine   I have been waiting for you to break me open, a blossom unbound from tight bud. I have been waiting, not placidly, not lazily; I have watered and tilled in your absence . . . more
July 08, 2006 11:49 PM EDT -- Rememory   Afterwards, there were months spent scraping myself clean against solid rock, baring bone, muscle, blood, stone. Until I learned I didn't have to hurt to get better, that . . . more
July 02, 2006 10:13 AM EDT -- Paper boat   loaned by moon that lazy shark pilot  Catastrophe averted-- Johnny Nervebundle  Johnny DangerMoney  Johnny Swinghat Johnny-I-wore-a-dress-for-you-and-this-is-what-I-get? . . . more
July 24, 2008 03:33 AM EDT -- “My fave ice cream memory is when my mom took a teeming carload of us--me, my two younger brothers and a gaggle of our friends to Howard Johnson's (AKA HoJo's) for ice cream. We were on our way . . . more
July 04, 2006 11:53 AM EDT -- Alia   My middle name is a town in Sicily I found on a National Geographic map, not far from Piazzo Cangilosi. So close to my grandfather's name--Congilosi, meaning with jealousy. Paired . . . more
July 02, 2006 10:23 AM EDT -- Benediction   All day I snap fresh sheets over antique beds, carry cart-loads of snowy towels still warm from the basement laundry, stop long enough to catch breeze from a window above Mohonk . . . more
July 05, 2006 07:09 AM EDT -- Mona, Swan's Wing   As you speak, parting the silence you wear wrapped round yourself like the black shawl of your hair I can see you then: youngest of nine daughters, nine sisters nine swans. . . . more
June 28, 2006 08:58 AM EDT -- Spoken word tales I invite you all to send stories of your first, last, or most memorable experiences at spoken word events.  Whether you were a performer or an audience member, let's hear it.   . . . more
 
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