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Tag: marriage

  • Working Around Obstacles

    Working Around Obstacles

    I worked obsessively to keep myself from ruminating over the many ways I tried and failed to communicate with my husband, which wasn’t always effective, because mostly I was working in isolation, my thoughts free to torture me without interruption. But I didn’t want to talk about it in my journal or with myself. The…

  • Marriage and Climate Change

    Marriage and Climate Change

    On June 23, 2011 there was a wind storm. Back then I wasn’t thinking much about whether it was normal to have a windstorm in June. I had only been living in the south for a couple years, so I really didn’t have an idea. Nowadays I notice patterns and think about whether an event…

  • Warehouse

    Warehouse

    A poem by Tony Robles

  • to Wed

    to Wed ’til death of the heart do us part the shopping cart.

  • Fairytale

    Fairytale Once, a man told his mother that he was better than her. She asked her son why. He knocked her down. She got up and slapped him. He killed her in a silent rage. At sunset he raped his sister. He told her to forget her mother ever existed. He married her, named himself…

  • Note from the Other Side

    Note from the Other Side a faithful man believes in equality trusts his wife wants to see her fly free to be who she is