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A Christmas Family Photo

4/6/09 10:49am by jessica.schafer
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its a series really take one: the family stands stunned but the two chairs in front are empty take two: we try to figure out what just happened while Oma drags Opa toward the chairs take three: success! the chairs are filled we have a record of the family together (only the top half of Uncle Greg’s head is missing)   April 6th prompt: something missing  Read more >

the Kandern War Memorial (a sestina)

4/5/09 3:57pm by jessica.schafer
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a memorial to war, this monument holds all the grief of those now silent unable to remember this grey green tower guards the beauty of insignificant lives. their memory lives in the names etched on this monument in the wreaths left to guard against forgetfulness, a grief worse than to remember all these silent why are you silent are there too many lives here to remember too many similar monuments all pointing to the same grief all statues in the same guard  Read more >

dogs

4/4/09 12:35pm by jessica.schafer
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the Bateman’s pug, Beanie, was always my favourite she and the black lab lived next door that summer their owners were gone and we got to pretend to have a dog for awhile one Christmas Sunshine came to stay only he spent most of the day sleeping and smelled as old as he was the fireworks New Year’s Eve made him panic when I was ten I bought an encyclopedia of dogs memorized all the breeds and gloated over my favourites for weeks  Read more >

forgotten bodies

4/3/09 2:14pm by jessica.schafer
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eat too worried about calories and expense to taste the exquisite combination of peanut butter and jelly look far more concerned with our own appearance than the fantastic exhibitions on now in the art gallery of the world hear memorize all the words to a hundred greatest hits and then have to be taught the skill of listening to lovers  Read more >

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