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Nov.16.2011 - 9:36 am
Peas in a Pod
My favorite love story is my own. At my 50th high school reunion in Winston-Salem, NC in 2009, I reconnected with a high school classmate whom I hadn't seen in fifty years. I...
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Sep.14.2011 - 10:05 am
The anniversary
This is September 4th, 2011.   That means it is three years to the day that Matthew Avery Solomon, father of Jayvon with Hazel and father of Makai with Hakiti, was shot in...
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Jan.23.2011 - 10:24 am
Facing spinal surgery
 I am facing spinal surgery on February 17th. I have been very pleased with the medical care I have received from Kaiser. Nevertheless, the medical model is an industrial one...
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Jan.14.2010 - 9:20 am
My favorite poem
A while back I was asked to participate in an evening of spoken poems in Sebastapol, California. At that time I chose a favorite poem to committ to heart and speak from the heart...
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Poem: The truth of that
Essay: The pain scale chart and other conundrums of post-op

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Feb.20.2009 - 9:43 am
In response to: Poetry for the People Celebrates Black History Month
An old poet's wondering
I’m old and Southern— once and forever and white but I’ll be bound to tell ya, I love words as much as any young...
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About Bill

Touched by hearing Mary Oliver's, The Journey, in the year 2000, I knew I must be a poet, though it took me several years before I could comfortably own that self description. Southern boy, Southern bred, Southern educated, born a few weeks before Pearl...
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