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Mother at Eighty

For the original, publication, in English and Spanish, see here: https://agradecidassenas.com/mother-at-eighty/

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Fiery World, a guide from grief to finding beauty in the world

It’s been a joy to write a piece tapping into the the guidance and love I have received in my life from friends, families and good doctors — they are out there. It’s the story of a young girl in … Continue reading

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Fiery World, love and mourning

I thought a long time about Syringa. That she was the beginning of love and the beginning of mourning both. Wasn’t that what Acheron had said the day we met? That I only mourned Alice because I loved her? That … Continue reading

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Did you know Springsteen sings on Lou Reed’s Street Hassle?

Well hey(man), that’s just a lie, It’s a lie she tells her friends. Cause the real song, the real song she won’t even admit to herself…  It’s a sad song it’s a song lots of people know. It’s a painful … Continue reading

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Not Selling Out but Cashing In

Advancing in years has been good for me. As if truth has been an amalgamation of experience, and at last I see reality — It doesn’t hurt to be on the non-commercial side of writing, and finally have a commercial … Continue reading

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Eden Sank to Grief

What can I say? Mary died. Happy Mary. So did Molly. Molly dressed up in fine clothes and shot herself with a gun she had bought at a local store. It was a curated death — like Kleist’s death with … Continue reading

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God, violence, trees….

New work: “I do not love you,” he finally  said, this boy I had met only once, “except because I love you. I go from loving you to not loving you. I hate you no end.” He was quoting Pablo … Continue reading

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It does not escape me

that most of what I read now seems empty. Empty by those under the age of forty because they are just kids, empty under the age of fifty because they still don’t know — we know nothing at all until … Continue reading

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Happy Birthday Paul

Of course, I don’t know how Paul thinks when he is alone, or even in company. I can only tell how he acts. And how Peggi acts. Which is as if everything is of interest. Which is as if a … Continue reading

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I Love Louise

The strangest thing about the brain is the way it remembers, or doesn’t. As in this party, in 2004, with my closest friends, Margaret and Kim. I remember it, surely; it was a great occasion. And yet it seems eons … Continue reading

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