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Alchemy Storyworks- Rose Arrowsmith DeCoux: Sauna
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Tuesday, December 27, 2011. Now I’m picturing the sauna and coming over across the hill- no snow, I think, but the lake goes back and forth between open water in fall and frozen black and smooth in winter. I see snowflakes begin to fall- I. That deep, pervasive, natural, holy and wholesome quiet- of. Being on the lake- that’s an amazing feeling and hard to fully understand here where there is no true wilderness in my mind- hmm- interesting meaning without the comma. The feeling of walking through the.
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Alchemy Storyworks- Rose Arrowsmith DeCoux: January 2012
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Saturday, January 28, 2012. Ten Stories in Ten Minutes. An exercise from "Writing Down the Bones," by Natalie Goldberg. The Mango People* pulled faces at her, the women pulling up their skirts- show yours, show yours- but she wouldn’t. All around her were half-naked brown women and their hair was black and curly- show us yours, show us! They implored, always dancing and moving their eyes this wya, that way. 2 The Moon and Venus Go Walking. Their bodies are large and beautiful. They each give off ligh...
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Alchemy Storyworks- Rose Arrowsmith DeCoux: Sex & Fireworks: a poem
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Saturday, July 16, 2011. Sex and Fireworks: a poem. The slow build, the. Only silhouettes, bodies. Lit in flashes,. Comes in under 15 minutes-. Lawn chairs and blankets,. The perfect spot,. The show delivered,. Slow to fast,. Small to big,. With a string of brilliant. Too fast to follow, each. With the next and. Dusky dark blue sky. Luminous from within,. Trail of floating smoke. By the wind, then,. For expectations met,. For a flamboyant expression. Of the American Dream. Chairs are folded,. I love Stor...
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Alchemy Storyworks- Rose Arrowsmith DeCoux: Ten Stories in Ten Minutes
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Saturday, January 28, 2012. Ten Stories in Ten Minutes. An exercise from "Writing Down the Bones," by Natalie Goldberg. The Mango People* pulled faces at her, the women pulling up their skirts- show yours, show yours- but she wouldn’t. All around her were half-naked brown women and their hair was black and curly- show us yours, show us! They implored, always dancing and moving their eyes this wya, that way. 2 The Moon and Venus Go Walking. Their bodies are large and beautiful. They each give off ligh...
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Alchemy Storyworks- Rose Arrowsmith DeCoux: April 2011
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Saturday, April 23, 2011. She stood by the climbing moonflower vine as the light faded from the sky. Her eyes were still puffy and red though it had been two hours since she’d last cried- her final sobs reaching their peak as she crossed the bridge and saw the beginning of the sunset, red, over the city. Were arguing she would stand in her pajamas until the cold of the dew made her legs tremble with shivers, until the moon rose up and the moonflowers opened. 8220;I will never marry you, Ricky! 8220;I was...
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Alchemy Storyworks- Rose Arrowsmith DeCoux: The Sock Goblin
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Monday, December 5, 2011. No, just thinking of the neatly ordered drawer of paired socks lined up by pattern and color made him shudder. He would no sooner take a matching pair than he would eat a piece of cheese or step out the front door. The small boy was careless enough with his socks, but his feet were still small, and his mother was always hurrying after him and picking up his dropped articles. The Sock Goblin sighed. It was going to be a skimpy winter, he knew it. He covered the whole room, even f...
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Alchemy Storyworks- Rose Arrowsmith DeCoux: What Repeats: a poem
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Thursday, June 23, 2011. What Repeats: a poem. Dropping into the same. Same sounds out the window, same. Me and my husband. These are the constants now-. New dishes and spoons. Clean up here,. Bring your own groceries;. Eat grandma’s hot dish. What’s the lesson? If I remain steady now,. Sane and on course. With every little inlet,. Every reef of coral. If I am learning. To captain by feel,. Keep my eyes on the stars. Who are constant travelers, too. Can’t I go anywhere? In all our travels. I am not alone.
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Alchemy Storyworks- Rose Arrowsmith DeCoux: June 2011
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Thursday, June 23, 2011. What Repeats: a poem. Dropping into the same. Same sounds out the window, same. Me and my husband. These are the constants now-. New dishes and spoons. Clean up here,. Bring your own groceries;. Eat grandma’s hot dish. What’s the lesson? If I remain steady now,. Sane and on course. With every little inlet,. Every reef of coral. If I am learning. To captain by feel,. Keep my eyes on the stars. Who are constant travelers, too. Can’t I go anywhere? In all our travels. I am not alone.
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Alchemy Storyworks- Rose Arrowsmith DeCoux: [Love Letter to Myself/Soul Wife]
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Sunday, January 30, 2011. Love Letter to Myself/Soul Wife]. I want to write. Can’t think of who else. I’m so out of practice. To take you out. Someplace nice, give you. Like a first boyfriend, know. Warm on pink paper. Will stay with you forever,. To buy you a ring. You’ll wear a. White dress and I’ll. Love you like I. Hold you, hold you. To feel the gravity between us. I have been absent-. With unImportant Things,. Working late at the office. That the love of my Dearest. Measures my worth;. I was in ele...
