July 2010
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Childish Quote of the Day
Camper: What are you doing?
Counselor: Strengthening my quadriceps.
Camper: It looks like you're pooping.
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Poetry Friday
Jagged Strokes
We raced to the buoy, jagged strokes
propelling us through the moon’s reflection.
Outpacing Nathalie by a length, I breached the algae veil,
recoiling from the film to draw the sharp breaths of a sword swallower.
Under Cassiopeia, we shared the darkness, the quiet
rocking that put our desire to sleep.
We floated to shore as leaves - walking up the dune
she...
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Poetry Friday
Carrying an Umbrella, an Inflatable Dragon and a Pale to the Mediterranean Sea
Rocks bit Eloise’s feet like a toddler
who’d been buried
in the sand, left to hunt
for its own food by a mother
who had gone out with the tide.
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Poetry Friday
Family Tradition
As ash fell like hula dancers, Captain Leopold stared at the door
thinking about the dolls
and ice skates that would not have their hair brushed or laces tightened
or be replaced.
Thinking about Mabel, his seven year old daughter who loves her cat, Minnie,
and singing showtunes,
he swung the axe as a fly fisherman casts his line.
Childish Quote of the Day
“Every shoe you own is the right size and a cool color. I honestly don’t get it.”
- 9 Year Old
