Monthly Archives: April 2012

Beachcombing

Posted on April 30, 2012 by Andrew Shattuck McBride

Under consideration…. asm Will restore after it is published. Andrew Shattuck McBride NaPoWriMo April 30, 2012

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Cobalt Blue Harvest

Posted on April 29, 2012 by Andrew Shattuck McBride

Under consideration…. asm Will restore after it is published. Andrew Shattuck McBride NaPoWriMo April 29, 2012

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Chess set

Posted on April 29, 2012 by Andrew Shattuck McBride

I loved chess; Dad loved me. Dad found it somewhere, missing one or two pieces, a discard. It was a carved wooden folding box with alternating brown and white inlaid squares. Staunton- style brown and white pieces matched the squares. … Continue reading →

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Mornings

Posted on April 28, 2012 by Andrew Shattuck McBride

He doesn’t sleep through the night any more. He’s up before dawn most mornings. In his kitchen he fills the Teflon hot pot with water and places it back on the stove, plugs it in. His coffee cup is speckled … Continue reading →

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Elegy to M.

Posted on April 27, 2012 by Andrew Shattuck McBride

M. was a childhood friend who killed himself. I have removed the text of this poem from my blog post. Details to follow! Andrew Shattuck McBride NaPoWriMo April 26, 2012

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On Kīlauea

Posted on April 26, 2012 by Andrew Shattuck McBride

For my poem today, I used a prompt from poet and educator Jennifer Bullis. Her workshop group tasked members to write a poem “incorporating the following words or concepts: maps / getting lost, stochastic, lightning, and diacritical marks.” Crazy? No. … Continue reading →

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Family Trees

Posted on April 24, 2012 by Andrew Shattuck McBride

Dad’s property in Volcano was two and a half acres in ohia – hapu῾u fern forest, field and lawn. Along two sides were what he called tsugi pines over sixty feet tall. Later I learned that these were cryptomeria, from … Continue reading →

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Chinese Banyan – Hilo, Hawai῾i

Posted on April 23, 2012 by Andrew Shattuck McBride

A Chinese Banyan rooted in the small backyard of Mom’s new house in Hilo. I assayed what needed to be done around her yard that first year. With certainty of youth, I heartlessly informed her that the Chinese Banyan had … Continue reading →

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Night Walk

Posted on April 23, 2012 by Andrew Shattuck McBride

How do I tell a woman so much younger that she’s exquisite, that I admire her intellect? That the way she looks at me disconcerts, that I haven’t felt this way in many years? I don’t; it’s safer to ask … Continue reading →

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Life’s longing for itself

Posted on April 22, 2012 by Andrew Shattuck McBride

titled with a phrase from Kahlil Gibran Under consideration…. asm Will restore after it is published. Andrew Shattuck McBride NaPoWriMo April 21, 2012

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