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Month: October 2014

Run to Tenderness

Have you ever noticed that a small detail triggers a memory or seemingly unrelated subject?  Memories appear roughly 400 milliseconds after the triggering exposure, according to research reported on the Cognitive Neuroscience Society’s blog.   This research aims to shed…

Third time’s the charm?

OK, I am not thrilled with all the cover-title options for the ebook I am publishing.  I originally had three possible titles.  I eliminated the first title, suggested by other poets, because I felt it would mislead readers.  That left two…

Flash Poem, Thanks

As a result of Chuck Wendig’s challenge: Flash Poem You said use the sentence and I thought I saw a sentence once but never heard it because it censored itself and you said a thousand words but I heard use…

Shadow Ambiguity in Poetry

I’m thinking about ambiguity in language and I blame credit  Grammar Girl, and her podcast on crash blossoms http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/fun-with-crash-blossoms  based on  text by Gretchen McCullough of  All Things  Linguistic  http://allthingslinguistic.com. Crash blossoms can be funny or disturbing, but what they have in common…