The wooden steps, supple in the warm season, creak and groan brittle protests as I climb to the deck. My cold bones ache, as well.
Season of Chill
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Protected: Booker to Mae: 4 August 1931
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Postcard: Sentinel in Winter, Yosemite
January 3rd, 2010 · No Comments
Watercolor photo, year unknown. Printed by the Pacific Novelty Co., San Francisco & Los Angeles.
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Protected: Booker to Mae: 2 August 1931
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Weight of Dreams
January 2nd, 2010 · No Comments
I’ll show you the ropes, he says to me, I can’t do this forever. I weigh his legacy vs. my dreams. He comes up short: my mistake.
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Protected: Mae to Booker: 28 July 1931
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Postcard: Montana
January 1st, 2010 · No Comments
Printed on back: “MONTANA: Truly the Treasure State”
(Received from ABE & EE. Dated 24 November 2009.)
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Protected: Booker to Mae: 26 July 1931
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Protected: Booker to Mae: 23 July 1931
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Doggone Books Afternoon
December 29th, 2009 · No Comments
I ask the bookseller for Nikolai Gogol. Bemused, he hands me Niccolò Machiavelli. Amused, I buy Alice Walker. He looks confused.
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