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Sep.12.2009
Kurt Vonnegut looked old. He shuffled by my booth at the antiques show, eyes bleary, a bit of the ancient walrus about him. A walrus in a rumpled London Fog, neither stylish nor especially interesting. I had only rhinestone jewelry to offer. Not walrus fodder at all and he moved on. It...
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Sep.11.2009
Smoke spirals four hundred miles away.I smell death through the television.No skills to medicate,no strong arms nora stronger heartto attack the carnage.I draw.I am an artist.It is all I can do.It will never be enough.
I make yellow linesfor souls ascending.Not enough.Not fast enough.With enough...
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Sep.10.2009
The Puppy-From-Hell also enjoys the floral arts, beheading each rose, lily and aster with piranha precision. She spits out the slightly-sodden blossoms for my arranging pleasure. There are now many, many crystal goblets adorning my house, each floating a bedraggled bloom. All inherited from...
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Sep.09.2009
Some would say I have the perfect life here in Maine. Four seasons of natural beauty, abundant privacy, and a relatively inexpensive lifestyle that enables me to write and paint, surrounded by books and art. A beautiful purebred dog. A Volvo. Ah, but sometimes, all is not as it seems...
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Sep.09.2009
So I’m sitting here in the idyllic countryside of a Maine late August morning, leafing through a rather elderly issue of New York Magazine, checking out an article prosaically entitled “How Loud.. .” which offers up a handy guide to decibels for jackhammers, taxi horns, and all that city...
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Toni Morrison says, “If there is a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.” So I have. HIGHWAY TO OBLIVION.”
About Mara
A naïve Maine native, I arrived at NYU eager to become a lawyer (until l met one!) so switched to Art History (all those beautiful slides!), studied anatomy and painting at the Art Students League, wrote art criticism for “The Villager” and handled foreign...
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Causes Mara Buck Supports
Kennebec Valley Humane Society, Amnesty International