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Whatever you do, don’t cash them in, not before floods melt margarine in the honeyed light of the last diamond setting. Atoms come in assorted… Read More »what to do with your wisdom benefits in 2022
Lenore's collections include "Tap Dancing on the Silverado Trail" (2011) from Finishing Line Press, “Sh’ma Yis’rael” (2007) from Pudding House Publications, and "Cutting Down the Last Tree on Easter Island" (West End Press, 2012). Her writing has won recognition from Poets&Writers (finalist in California Voices contest) and as a finalist for Pablo Neruda Prize, Nimrod International Journal. The Society for Technical Communication has recognized her work regarding Technical Literacy in the schools. All material is copyrighted on this site and cannot be used without the author's permission.
Whatever you do, don’t cash them in, not before floods melt margarine in the honeyed light of the last diamond setting. Atoms come in assorted… Read More »what to do with your wisdom benefits in 2022
My past was gone. Days blurred. I tore apart journals, ripped out one page at a time. People came to the house after the funeral… Read More »The Pool of Knowledge: The Worst Day
My eyes traced the ball’s path toward the goal. I heard and saw everything at once. A seagull cried. Its shadow floated along the field.… Read More »Pool of Knowledge: The Start
I wanted to tell him none of my girlfriends would expect me to listen to them talk for a half hour non-stop unless someone… Read More »The Origins of Alone
There’s a motel in vampire land Where spider plants grow baby bats And zombies float face down inside bathtubs. I wear a black mask that… Read More »Halloween, Portland 2021
I was first introduced to Octavia Butler in a writing class at San Francisco State University. We read a selection from one of her books,… Read More »Echoes of Anne Frank in Parable of the Sower
Vernon and Jay got together on most Sunday afternoons to practice guitar. They sat in Vernon’s garage. The door was open and wouldn’t close. A… Read More »Smoking in the Garage
Lila’s shadow was caught in the wheels of a shopping cart as she moved toward the automatic opening doors. Walmart’s entrance was blocked by rows… Read More »Ariel Discovers Multitudes in WalMart
It happened during a green and sticky almost summer two months before the end of sixth grade. It seemed like my past didn’t exist anymore.… Read More »New Beginnings
Fear rose in her throat and hollowed out her stomach—lost with no idea how to get home. Liana kept watching the plumed purple bird that… Read More »Time of the Great Feathering (from The Pool of Knowledge)