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Warp and Weft: The Architecture of Longing

Warp and Weft: The Architecture of Longing

Posted on February 21, 2021 by Debra Shirley

Warp and Weft: The Architecture of Longing   Always thinking of the next move, she never arrived, fully, in the place she happened…

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Running the River Regret

Running the River Regret

Posted on February 21, 2021February 21, 2021 by Debra Shirley

Running the River Regret   It’s an easy put-in, but Bull Sluice to Shoulder Bone is a run of holes that might claim…

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Sun, Descending

Sun, Descending

Posted on February 21, 2021February 21, 2021 by Debra Shirley

Sun, Descending   Yellow sky, pale as a breath, crescendos into flames running the rim of earth. Pitch silhouettes of cottonwood trees ripple…

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In the Face of Such Abundance

In the Face of Such Abundance

Posted on February 21, 2021February 21, 2021 by Debra Shirley

In The Face of Such Abundance   This lovely, laden spring has left me quivering, a mouth just kissed.   The bloom on…

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Always in August

Always in August

Posted on November 25, 2018 by Debra Shirley

Always in August   Festooned in flaming trumpet vine and daylilies, tomatoes just coming on, really, and afternoons still bearing down on our…

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Sweet By and By

Sweet By and By

Posted on November 25, 2018 by Debra Shirley

Sweet By and By   I am a mayfly, blue-winged olive here one day then gone, entire life spooled out over a sunlit…

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Eyes Lifted

Eyes Lifted

Posted on October 12, 2018November 24, 2018 by Debra Shirley

Eyes Lifted   Bruised sky, purpled breath of a fall late in coming.   Rain dribbled windows smear the catalpa tree, emerald to…

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And Haven't Things Always Been Falling Down Around Us

And Haven’t Things Always Been Falling Down Around Us

Posted on September 8, 2018February 21, 2021 by Debra Shirley

And Haven’t Things Always Been Falling Down Around Us   Come. Forty years gone, I can still show you the ruins we used…

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The Names of Things

The Names of Things

Posted on July 21, 2018November 24, 2018 by Debra Shirley

The Names of Things   All this desperate searching, striving, buttoned up to your chin in absolutes.   For you, brother, I say…

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Making A Case for Rain

Making A Case for Rain

Posted on March 7, 2017November 24, 2018 by Debra Shirley

This morning, on my way to work, I stopped to chat a minute with a neighbor, an older gentleman I see nearly every…

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