https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/category-1157-mother en 2005-2012 shakespearesmonekys@gmail.com 42.65593 -71.33391 Tue, 09 Jun 2026 22:14:04 GMT yacs http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 70 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-8315-singing-south https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-8315-singing-south   We were hidden in the servants' quarters below grand rooms sold empty- echo of drunken voices; men with eyes like bullets of cocaine staggering smashed glass feet  of manic lust, the violence ending crushed, dialated stupor of my mother's smuggled stash, her bed floating in flames before the marble fireplace.  Slick whisper of dark cars sat black in night- windows watching through tinted eyes, a fearful frenzy made the house go quiet and one by one the squatters fled. Abandoned,  lease left behind, unpaid- rooms strewn with incriminating evidence, we scavenged what could be sold ... more Celticlion Loom Sat, 26 Apr 2008 12:56:11 GMT /section-579-loom#comments 0 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/8315 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/8315 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A8315 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-8332-the-drowning-mermaid https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-8332-the-drowning-mermaid   My mother's eyes sat closed, ankle deep in white sand sunning, far from the water's edge.   Running home, I returned to the sea, a little mermaid swimming tail-less, (my dreamt of memories), I splashed into the blue; two legs as one held tightly together, octopus arms, pale and graceful in flames of swirling hair.   Someday soon, I'd swim so deep, so far, no one could see me, then with legs gone green,  herringbone scales, I'd slap the surface of the world's last breath ... more Celticlion Loom Fri, 25 Apr 2008 22:14:19 GMT /section-579-loom#comments 2 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/8332 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/8332 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A8332