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0004 Chloe's Stories

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  She went straight for adventures
the minute she could read,
unlike her mother who sought
the comfort of animal heroes
and predictable endings
well into her teens.

Surprising, sometimes,
how she takes it in stride -
wartime famine and Black
Death, nature’s blunt brutality
(“did you know that Charlotte dies
after having her babies? That’s
how it is for spiders”) - following
her heroes into darkness,
braving burglars and wild boar
as they settle the West in a quiet
corner of her room after dinner.

She still prefers the company
of Women Who Dared and
Men Who Made History,
still believes she can conquer
every curve of the world
with little more than a meal
of dried meat and stale bread,
a sack and a compass,
and a notebook for letters home
so her brother doesn’t worry.

Lori Boulard


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  Don Mcwilliams  (3/6/2008 10:04:00 PM)

Wonderful, Lori. Your work flows like music, like water over slick stones. And I prefer 'unlike me'. Again that word, but it just...flows. Poetry is not expected to abide so strictly by rules of grammar. Better that it should sing,

Don
  John Kay  (2/25/2008 8:27:00 AM)

Lori...again, I'm taken with the natural flow of your words, which never seem stained. They are filled with confidence. When I first read this and thought about it, the first thing that suggested itself was changing 'brother' to 'mother, ' but I can't say yet whether one works better than the other. 'Mother, ' draws the narrator into the last line, but maybe that's too much. 'Brother' is cute, while 'mother' carries a heavier load. Just a thought. Take care, John
  THE LAST REMNANT OF SANITY BIDS YOU ADIEU  (2/23/2008 9:03:00 PM)

One very nitpicky thing here, Lori - it's the English teacher in me....(my original major was English and I LIVE WITH AN ENGLISH/THEATRE ARTS TEACHER - yikes!) , but it should be 'unlike I, who sought[...]' Otherwise, again, a marvelous piece here. You're definitely on a roll, Girl. Off to kick some ass at Scrabble...thanks for sharing your work with me.
  Roger Cornish  (2/23/2008 5:15:00 PM)

I love this..... gonna read some more!
Roger.

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