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Memory Believes Before Knowing Remembers –William Faulkner Walk past wild radish and California golden poppies, beyond a pond lined in cattails and home to mallards,… Read More »Benchmarks
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.
Memory Believes Before Knowing Remembers –William Faulkner Walk past wild radish and California golden poppies, beyond a pond lined in cattails and home to mallards,… Read More »Benchmarks
I want to wake up each morning without remembering your voice, how we used to wrap around together in one invisible seam, a velcro from… Read More »Wandering in the Desert
The way forward is with a broken heart. –Alice Walker (With thanks to Elizabeth Bishop, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Frank Sinatra and W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan)… Read More »Mortal
There’s a stopper in my heart Where my love used to be. It doesn’t stop anything.
An hour-and-a-half ride on the subway from east side to west. Always waiting, finding a place between riveted posts, a light in the tunnel, I… Read More »New York City Transportation
She was excited to have three separate appointments in one day. The first, to get her eyes checked following cataract surgery, then on to her regular… Read More »Expiration Date
Along the marijuana scented streets of San Francisco State University, evening classes, students clump along Holloway Avenue, smokers come out from behind parking meters that… Read More »Junipero Serra
Beachcomber, the sting of salt water on your wings grey garbage collector raking portions from the undertow of my thoughts.
I rendezvous with my online dates at either one of two places. The first is near Lake Merritt in Oakland, which provides ample time to… Read More »Shoot Me, I’m Online Dating (11)
A word sings past a chime of cascading leaves flows outside a slight breeze cousin to the first breath two syllables a holy mantra bathed… Read More »For Syrian Refugees