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Neighborhood Haunt
“I think this is it,” I said, stopping in front of the door under a green awning. I squinted to be sure I was seeing the number...
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aeraustol
- Jul 24
- 1 min
Emerge
I am yesterday. I am today. I am a piece of chocolate cake in the slimy mucus of my belly. I am a leaning-to-ward. A desire. I am hands....
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aeraustol
- Jun 17
- 3 min
Broken Record
I woke up to a text from my daughter Isabel this morning. "here safe!" the text gleefully proclaimed. My three kids and their dad, Ole,...
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aeraustol
- May 25
- 2 min
I Can't Stop Smiling
I can’t stop smiling when my son lands his side rails. When a whole room of boys cheer for one. One kid wears a flat billed hat and jeans...
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aeraustol
- May 2
- 1 min
Don't Get Me Started
Don't get me started about orgasms organics plastics politics probiotics chickens chattel chill out. Don’t get me started about those who...
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aeraustol
- Apr 3
- 1 min
Exit 21 Maple
Yesterday when I drove off Exit 21, the Maple that had been deep red had faded into the color of rust. For weeks, I have loved her...
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aeraustol
- Jan 15
- 3 min
Speaking of Trees
Sometimes my brother and I pressed our foreheads against the window in our mother's office and watched the college students in the...
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aeraustol
- Oct 18, 2022
- 1 min
Cario, Egypt
Something about the Islamic prayer Reverberating in the dusty boney dog and cat infested sweet potato food cart courtyard outside the...
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aeraustol
- Aug 30, 2022
- 1 min
YOU WOULDN'T KNOW
If I didn’t write this poem, you wouldn’t know the hum of my dishwasher, the way one dish clinks against another, the strum of my son’s...
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aeraustol
- Jun 3, 2022
- 7 min
An Old Story Told By A Magical Boy
The Looking Tree Originally Published in Rock and Sling in 2015 A little boy sits in a tree, waiting for the bus to bring his sister...
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aeraustol
- Feb 3, 2021
- 6 min
Teenage Writers, Poetry Readings and What Matters
Mona, my high school senior AP English teacher, used to say that her dog was smarter than her students. She described how her dog would...
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aeraustol
- Dec 7, 2020
- 3 min
A Swirl of Truth and Fiction
Lately, I'm trying to lean into what is rather than what I want. I wish I could make that a very active, confident sentence. "I am...
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aeraustol
- Oct 15, 2020
- 2 min
Help with The Next Right Step
Let me just get right to the point. Do you know someone who needs help with college application essays? Are they stressed about writing...
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aeraustol
- Aug 21, 2020
- 4 min
The Wild Hen
Covid is keeping children out of school in the fall of 2020. Cotton kept children like my mother out of school in places like West...
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aeraustol
- Aug 14, 2020
- 4 min
Granny's 1951 John Deere
* See my story below. Since this was my first published story and it's not on-line, I thought I'd put it on my blog so that I could link...
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aeraustol
- Aug 2, 2020
- 2 min
Finding the right words is hard. Donuts are good.
Writing is hard. I say this to myself almost every time I'm working on something new or old or really, anything at all. How I imagine the...
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