Parker Owens
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This was a fantastic story. I was fully engaged and could not stop reading. Thank you for writing and sharing it.
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This poem sings of joy and loss, reunion and remembering. Its kind makes me recall how important we can be to one another. Thank you.
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Embracing the gray is a wonderful way to put it. I like this.
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It’s a splendid story - sweet and satisfying as that cake! I hope there’s enough for second helpings.
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Chapter 4 Texas Two-Step
Parker Owens commented on Headstall's story chapter in Chapter 4 Texas Two-Step
Thanks for this tale. It’s fun, lovely and full of hope.- 88 comments
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How bittersweet the taste of this poem feels on my tongue as I read it. It may be like an aged wine, full of complexity and various flavors - yet the overarching melancholy puts me in a reflective mood, as anniversaries often do. This is beautifully done.
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Thank you for this. Another place in our pantheon of special people is empty. She still shines in our hearts.
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This is a beautiful story. Thank you for including it in this anthology.
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I'm frustrated I cannot choose more than one reaction icon. I love this because this poem radiates raw emotion. You make me feel as you felt in those moments, and also in this present instant. You drew me in and held me breathless as I read deeper and deeper into the poem. As others have said, this is enormously powerful. At the same time, I want to hit the sadness icon for the pain you endured, and hurt you continue to feel. I'd also use the anger icon because I'm angry someone wounded you so sorely.
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This is a beautiful companion planting. I’m particularly taken by the second quatrain, with Love’s warmth being the essential part of the partnership between circumstance and tender regard. Your turn in the next quatrain is all the more marked, as rain follows sun. As I said, it’s lovely. Thank you!
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The almost-new moon which cloaks most of itself is a monthly wonder to me, unfailing in its ability to make me stop and smile. The tallest of the tomato plants in the garden are well over 240 cm high. It’s like watching stars through the trees. Thanks very much for your thoughts, and for reading these.
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The elusive screech owl is one of my favorite birds. One hears them as dusk slides into night, warning the forest that they’re ready to hunt. As the daylight hours shrink, and school gets set to reopen, the hours to spend at harvest shrink to mere minutes. It’s too easy to work frantically, forgetting how beautiful it is in the darkening garden. Many thanks for your kind words, and for reading these!
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Your farm sounds idyllic. I’m very glad you thought the title was apt. Borderlands is a theme that seems to stick with me these days. I hope your occasional visitors bring you wonder and joy in equal measure.
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They’d be kinda spacey kids, then…
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My personal favorite would be to name them Euclid and Euler and have them speak only math.
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Picking beans until the screech owls call, and fingers fail to feel stalk from stem, I watch the stars emerge over the tomatoes changing sunflowers to mute shadows while the katydids chant it’s bedtime. ~ Phantom deer appear out of the mist, alert, tails a-twitch, ears cocked forward, dark eyes filled with caution and curiosity; four tawny forms set to turn as one toward the dark tangled woods an
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Why not Percy and Preston? Or, maybe Olaf and Oswald? I think you could raise a gazillion dollars for floating clinics just for the privilege of choosing the twins’ unusual names.
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Floating clinics! Better than cruise ship casinos, maybe. But then will the states refuse permission for those ships to dock or take on passengers? Fighting back state by state is going to be a long hard slog, but it’s likely to be the only path forward for a long time. For the time being, I’m all for celebrating the twins!
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What an amazing timeless work
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A new sonnet might begin: Have pity on the poor, forgotten weed…. That one might be fun to complete. You’re right, of course, that so-called weeds can be more interesting and more resilient than the cultivars in the garden. There are several barely tamed onetime weed specimens in the garden even now - gooseneck and goldenrod among them. They can be both pretty and uncivil. Anyhow, thank you very much for your commentary and for reading!
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You are surely right about weeds, at least some of them. The forget-me-nots and ajuga take over the lawn every spring. I have a garden full of barely tamed weeds - gooseneck, wild sunflower, goldenrod, globe thistle - which complement and enhance my more timid cultivars. Together, they blend textures and colors and sizes into something harmonious. The garden isn't going to win any awards, but it's peaceful nonetheless. Many thanks for reading, and for your commentary.
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A nest of vipers would be a good lead-in to another sonnet: A brood of vipers rises on the screen…. I will leave you to fill in the remaining 13 lines. In all seriousness, it seems we have raised too many vipers and too few falcons and mongooses (mongeese?). May we live to see better and more civil days. Thanks very much for reading and for adding your reactions.
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I hope that all the riot of color in our well loved gardens will drown out the weeds. Many thanks for reading this and for your reactions.
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Companion plantings mutually spur prosperity in neighbors side by side, as they their own peculiar gifts confer upon the stalk or bloom with whom they bide; and so it is with us sojourners here in finding others rooted in our days that through each season, every passing year, new joys emerge to flower and upraise. So wonder then, that hatred’s bitter seeds find welcome in community’s rich soil to choke all sweeter fruit with noxious wee
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Toddlers in the White House, smacking down a Dark Side reporter, and behind the scenes with our favorite celebrity couple: this kicks off a new phase of their life and work. I’m looking forward to more.
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