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Daughter of the Ring of Fire
http://blog.elizabethkateswitaj.net/
Daughter of the Ring of Fire is the personal blog of author, poet, and photographer Elizabeth Kate Switaj.
Recent Posts
Winter Solstice
Image by mauroPPP via Flickr Winter Solstice came early for me this year. One hour early to be precise. And it helped me to better understand the meaning of the day. By the time I got out of bed on this shortest of days, the outside light was ...
Thursday Read Write Poem
Love at First Snight safer than radar precious as moon-hit trees abiding wind & curled meteors pierced w/backs of stars and your back like a shell when the telephone connects pulled from silence all of this moved in my life ab...
Bright Star
Image via Wikipedia Last night, I finally saw Bright Star on its last night at the Queen’s Film Theatre. The movie was a fiction, but a lovely one, about the romance between John Keats and Fanny Brawne. From the opening in which we saw h...
Thursday Read Write Poem
Making Coffee my fingers burned on frayed circuits in the drip-brew and too much force of water steam through used grounds I give in to richer scents I give French press a try select a supple roast to pour along glass skin and heat the water by mysel...
“it’s not a bug”
I am tired of running into bigotry and ignorance in the poetry world. Tired but no longer surprised when I do. There is no reason, after all, to expect that any subculture or set of subcultures would avoid the hierarchies and cruelties of the broad...
Thursday Read Write Poem
Pomegranate your waxed and lumpy skin seemed like a tank w/o mortars or missiles I cdn't die I cdn't dig my nails into you under those immaculate groaning lights of Safeway, Albertson's, QFC...
