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Pictures of Lilies: August 2006
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A collection of word pictures. Thursday, August 31, 2006. Above the roofline, more stars than sky. A loon calls across the lake. Cicadas constant in the woods. I pick cobwebs off my sneaker. I try to fit in small spaces. The shadows of leaves on my tent. They call those web caterpillars. They don't hurt the trees. My brother blows on the fire. Ash falls as slowly as snow. Sometimes knowing it exists is enough," my dad says, of a blue crab shell I leave on the beach. Posted by Elizabeth Thorpe at 11:02 PM.
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Pictures of Lilies: October 2006
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A collection of word pictures. Monday, October 30, 2006. The fluorescent light was flickering purple, lightning running through. Thick plastic flapped from scaffolding. The trees by the Marriott are still green and leafy, the last of summer lit by spotlights. John, the Dunkin man, looked glad to see us. Outside the Dunkin, a woman lined up packs of cigarettes on the sidewalk, along with an alarm clock and her purse. "Got a cigarette? She asked as people passed. Posted by Elizabeth Thorpe at 1:22 AM.
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Pictures of Lilies: December 2006
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A collection of word pictures. Saturday, December 16, 2006. White Christmas lights reflected on the clean polished floor. Posted by Elizabeth Thorpe at 2:54 AM. Thursday, December 14, 2006. What I Did on Your Birthday. For my brother, Jim. This morning I stood on my balcony and watched the mist burning off around the library. The smell of the lunch trucks and restaurants reminded me of what it was like to visit cities before I lived in one. It reminded me that you once visited this city. At home I made h...
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Pictures of Lilies: September 2006
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A collection of word pictures. Thursday, September 28, 2006. I read poetry at the Rodin museum, moving from bench to bench, following the shade. Posted by Elizabeth Thorpe at 12:25 AM. Saturday, September 16, 2006. Posted by Elizabeth Thorpe at 11:38 AM. Tuesday, September 12, 2006. Sarah shows me her paintings. The sun on a gold border. Suggestion of mountains. She buys paint by the quart, by the gallon. Everything’s bright: her cheeks, her eyes, the light on paint. This is art. Tales of a House Husband.
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Pictures of Lilies: July 2006
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A collection of word pictures. Thursday, July 27, 2006. Cheap t-shirts, silver charms. Heavy ice cream cones,. A toddler crying over a scoop on pavement. The smell of hot fudge and the promise. Of lobster ice cream. A woman wearing thick gold bracelets smooths her big styled hair with her palms. Man in whale-patterned chinos hustles his wife along. College kids, black flip flops, winding bikes through the slow traffic. The girls, rail thin, muscled and tanned, hair long and silky or short and cute. Story...
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Pictures of Lilies: January 2007
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A collection of word pictures. Wednesday, January 31, 2007. The unflickering fire of sunset in the windows. Posted by Elizabeth Thorpe at 9:04 PM. Tuesday, January 30, 2007. A pile of fine chalk dust on my desk in front of the classroom. Road salt against a telephone pole, small round balls of it clinging together like styrofoam. Snow sideways in the streetlights. Posted by Elizabeth Thorpe at 10:35 PM. Monday, January 29, 2007. A fine crust of snow on the balcony, shaped by the wind. We buy a bag of pop...
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Pictures of Lilies: June 2006
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A collection of word pictures. Monday, June 26, 2006. Four AM. The smell of evergreens. Dew on the grass. The sky gets lighter. Posted by Elizabeth Thorpe at 1:56 AM. Wednesday, June 21, 2006. Now she did nothing more than blend in. She wiped the counter that had been wiped so many times it wasn't shiny any more, and she couldn't see even a shadowy reflection of herself. And one night she met Eddie when his boat was in port for a storm and that was the beginning and the end. Tuesday, June 20, 2006. Miria...
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Pictures of Lilies: February 2007
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A collection of word pictures. Thursday, February 15, 2007. Tonight it's cold enough to see Orion above the city lights. Posted by Elizabeth Thorpe at 8:45 PM. Wednesday, February 07, 2007. Today the reflections don't move. In spite of the cold, I stop on the bridge to look - it's the first time I've seen the river ice over. Scallops of white where the top currents ran slow, slower, thick with cold. Posted by Elizabeth Thorpe at 12:13 AM. Monday, February 05, 2007. Posted by Elizabeth Thorpe at 11:19 PM.
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Pictures of Lilies: May 2006
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A collection of word pictures. Wednesday, May 31, 2006. Bass grabs a surface fly. A circle, pink with highway light, marks the spot. Posted by Elizabeth Thorpe at 12:57 AM. Monday, May 29, 2006. My friends are pregnant. Six of them, swollen like ripe fruit, like bruises, like something I don't understand and can't define. They wait, sitting or walking, keeping themselves busy with preparations for the hospital, the return. A compromise, the most important one of my life. Are books enough? We share a Mali...
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