Anxiety burnsan acidic devouring confidence impaled –mind wanders to childhood dreamsuncovers fear’s origin. (Tuesdays, I borrow from Twitter @Vjknutson. I came across this tanka written in May/21 that seemed to match with the image I recently posted on my other blog. I decided to pair them here.)
We wait at the station, Mother and I,one final stop for her – painless she prays;I busied at bedside – prolonged goodbye –memories and regrets filling our days. “We live too long,” she wearily proclaims“Why must suffering linger till the end?”I plea and bargain, call angelic names,yet the will to survive refuses to bend. The […]
There are mouse bitssplayed across the sunroomstuck to my favourite throw rug and great globs of glue The trap my husband setto catch the recent invasionapparently lured the hunterfor she, stiff legged andface matted, is skulkingelsewhere I stepped on a gluey biteyes not yet openbefore notingthe disarray Hard to concentratewhen a tail detachedfrom a thigh […]
One Woman's Quest II 
I hate to say this, but that water tower photo is from Florence, Kentucky… not in Texas. I’ve driven by it hundreds of times…
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Hahaha – thanks for setting me straight – a random photo I did not earmark, so just assumed. Glad you found me.
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you’re welcome. I lived in Cincinnati for several years – and that water town puzzled me each time I drove over the river into Kentucky… very interesting. I’m in Texas now – and much better than when I was in Cincinnati! Glad I found your blog.
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Likewise. You might want to link up to the photo challenge I posted that photo for – it’s just for silly signs. That water tower made me chuckle.
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hahhah
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Good morning! Is this from Florence Tx? Scratching my head as to why y’all would’ve been in Florence … off the beaten path … then again, that might’ve been why!
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It’s Florence Texas. Got quite the chuckle out of it.
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good one
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Lol.
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