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Deborah's Latest Blogs

Dec.19.2009 - 11:40 am
Bremerton was gray from the ground up the day a former nun ripped out my guts and stomped on them in front of 24 strangers. At the time I didn't know she'd been a nun; but I did...
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Dec.17.2009 - 10:54 am
 Deer They hang her in the barn, head down, tongue fat,        dripping blood. I am left alone        for a moment, venture close to stroke dark fur        made rough by winter;...
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Dec.16.2009 - 7:20 pm
Yellow Bowl
  Comfort Food When my mother finally kicked my step-father out (after he'd paid another woman to impersonate my mother in order to use our 3 acres as collateral to get out of...
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Comments from Deborah

Dec.20.2009 - 6:27 am
In response to: Baptism: Olympic College Poetry Workshop
Thank you, Mara, for your response.  I had already figured that out, but was hoping for a less time-intensive cure. ...
Dec.18.2009 - 4:53 pm
In response to: Two Poems about Deer
Thanks, Heather, for reading my work.   I'm not against vegetarianism, but as a Native American I have other ways of...
Jun.20.2008 - 7:54 am
In response to: Truth in Fiction
I think I know what you mean, Dorothy, about redemption.  I feel it too; a lack of believable redemption.   I'm...