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Aliki Barnstone: February 2012
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Monday, February 27, 2012. Icon depicting The Ladder of Divine Ascent. 12 C, St. Catherine's Mondastery, Sinai). Or Bright Monday is the first day of Great Lent. In Eastern Orthodoxy and is a national holiday in Greece. People clean their homes, fly kites, and go on outdoor excursions. Shellfish and octopus are Lenten foods. Dark ceases in his light, so they say. I want to belong to him lifelong. Same old song, old song, old song. Black leaves in daylight. Black leaves rot on the lawn. The Most Natural T...
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Aliki Barnstone: "Purple Crocuses," a Poem
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Monday, March 31, 2014. Purple Crocuses," a Poem. Seduced by El Niño’s eastern balm, they bloom early. One morning they appear, sudden like shining wet paint. Splashed across the newly green lawn. They’ve naturalized, their opulent purples. Each year more abundant with drunken bees. Buzzing between six pointed petals. Purple crocuses with shocking orange centers. Were here before I stuck my shovel in this dirt,. Perhaps before the old widow, Elvira Lockwood,. Who dug here before me and left a wind chime.
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Aliki Barnstone: October 2011
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Monday, October 31, 2011. The Ruins of Mega Livadi, Serifos. This past week, with what the Greeks call "the crisis" intensified, with the protestors in Thessaloniki saying "NO! To the military parade celebrating " Oxi Day,. I got to thinking about this little tractate, "The Ruins of Mega Livadi," that I wrote several years ago, when people were optimistic about the economy. Mega Livadi was the site of the 1916 Miners' Strike. He 1916 Miners' Strike was. One of the defining moments in the. Canaries sing f...
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Aliki Barnstone: March 2014
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Monday, March 31, 2014. Purple Crocuses," a Poem. Seduced by El Niño’s eastern balm, they bloom early. One morning they appear, sudden like shining wet paint. Splashed across the newly green lawn. They’ve naturalized, their opulent purples. Each year more abundant with drunken bees. Buzzing between six pointed petals. Purple crocuses with shocking orange centers. Were here before I stuck my shovel in this dirt,. Perhaps before the old widow, Elvira Lockwood,. Who dug here before me and left a wind chime.
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Aliki Barnstone: April 2012
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Sunday, April 15, 2012. Greek Easter": A Poem from Blue Earth. Source: Selah: Thoughts on the Psalms and their Use. By Christians through the Ages. All the Greeks in Bloomington come here,. To Peter Costas's for Easter. Whole garbage cans. Beside long tables of food, and ingredients—feta, filo,. Olives—ordered from faraway Chicago. We say, "Kalo Pascha. Vassili pinches both my cheeks and says, "Koritsáki mou. We click our eggs together. And the holder of the unbroken egg gets luck. Each is a red egg.
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Aliki Barnstone: November 2011
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Sunday, November 27, 2011. And Hope That My Dreams Will Come True. The unconscious wants truth, as the body does. The complexity and fecundity of dreams comes from the complexity and fecundity of the unconscious struggling to fulfill that desire. 8212; Adrienne Rich. I want to be in London with George. Where do you want to go, Kiki? 8220;I want to be in London, too, with Paul. Abby, would you like to go on a double date? Other times, Abigail would cry bitterly, “I don’t have a father! And still stays true.
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Aliki Barnstone: November 2013
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Wednesday, November 27, 2013. WEEDS," A POEM FOR MY FRIENDS ON THANKSGIVING. Dandelions, ©Aliki Barnstone. I like dandelions, though most say they’re weeds. In Greece they’re called wild greens. Every day the sun shines this stormy spring,. I swear I’ll harvest, steam, and serve them. With extra virgin olive oil, lemon, and salt,. Yet I don’t make the time because I’m not. A wizard who knows how to rip the minutes. And hours out of the universe by their roots. Into minutes and hours and choke the life.
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Aliki Barnstone: "WEEDS," A POEM FOR MY FRIENDS ON THANKSGIVING
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Wednesday, November 27, 2013. WEEDS," A POEM FOR MY FRIENDS ON THANKSGIVING. Dandelions, ©Aliki Barnstone. I like dandelions, though most say they’re weeds. In Greece they’re called wild greens. Every day the sun shines this stormy spring,. I swear I’ll harvest, steam, and serve them. With extra virgin olive oil, lemon, and salt,. Yet I don’t make the time because I’m not. A wizard who knows how to rip the minutes. And hours out of the universe by their roots. Into minutes and hours and choke the life.
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Aliki Barnstone: "Greek Easter": A Poem from Blue Earth
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Sunday, April 15, 2012. Greek Easter": A Poem from Blue Earth. Source: Selah: Thoughts on the Psalms and their Use. By Christians through the Ages. All the Greeks in Bloomington come here,. To Peter Costas's for Easter. Whole garbage cans. Beside long tables of food, and ingredients—feta, filo,. Olives—ordered from faraway Chicago. We say, "Kalo Pascha. Vassili pinches both my cheeks and says, "Koritsáki mou. We click our eggs together. And the holder of the unbroken egg gets luck. Each is a red egg.
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Aliki Barnstone: Clean Monday
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Monday, February 27, 2012. Icon depicting The Ladder of Divine Ascent. 12 C, St. Catherine's Mondastery, Sinai). Or Bright Monday is the first day of Great Lent. In Eastern Orthodoxy and is a national holiday in Greece. People clean their homes, fly kites, and go on outdoor excursions. Shellfish and octopus are Lenten foods. Dark ceases in his light, so they say. I want to belong to him lifelong. Same old song, old song, old song. Black leaves in daylight. Black leaves rot on the lawn. The Most Natural T...
