https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/section-103-rumors-of-lemonade Just a taste of my first chapbook, "Lemonade & Rumors" en 2005-2012 shakespearesmonekys@gmail.com 42.65593 -71.33391 Tue, 09 Jun 2026 10:29:58 GMT yacs http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 70 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2567-just-in-case-i-die-today https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2567-just-in-case-i-die-today If today should happen to be a prophecy fulfilled, will not know. Nor will you ntil this -- scrawled in haste and apprehension on the back of a used envelope -- falls from an unexpected place, sliding to the ground with the sigh and stern tap of paper meeting floor. Will Rodgers Rumors of Lemonade Fri, 08 Nov 2013 20:53:55 GMT /section-103-rumors-of-lemonade#comments 3 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/2567 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/2567 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A2567 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-5087-formication https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-5087-formication since the cicadas are back, I thought I'd rehash this one Julie Rumors of Lemonade Fri, 29 Jun 2007 18:07:13 GMT /section-103-rumors-of-lemonade#comments 0 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/5087 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/5087 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A5087 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2590-bio-for-lemonade-rumors https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2590-bio-for-lemonade-rumors Rumor has it, Julie Ann Cook spent her pre-registered-voter years in southwestern Pennsylvania, less than an hour from Pittsburgh. She has had a love-hate relationship with her status as the oldest (but rarely tallest) of four children in a close Catholic family: no older siblings to live up to equates to being the guinea pig. Julie wrote her first poems at 7, 15, and 17 years old. She dismissed this tendency to scribble words and instead sought a degree in visual arts. Still, somehow she walked away from Winthrop University (but not too far away -- she still lives ... more Julie Rumors of Lemonade Tue, 01 May 2007 15:28:33 GMT /section-103-rumors-of-lemonade#comments 0 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/2590 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/2590 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A2590 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2570-your-grasp-tested https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2570-your-grasp-tested Amen, Amen, I say to you, hold fastto the quiet for it is here you will find me,breathing for you in the tightness of minutes,days stretched taught across raw abscesses.They will heal, though not as you will hope.First, you will bleed. It is natural, painfulexpected; you will not lose morethan you can spare, it is changetossed to the beggars tuggingat your hems. Pennies, I will giveyou more. But you see wolvesinstead, shredding the layersyou mistook for protection.Still, I will breathe, let you cryyour eyes red and dry, let you findme again -- I am patient ... more Julie Rumors of Lemonade Fri, 20 Apr 2007 03:38:17 GMT /section-103-rumors-of-lemonade#comments 0 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/2570 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/2570 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A2570 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2574-the-normal-psychosis-of-mothering https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2574-the-normal-psychosis-of-mothering it's normal, claimedthe radio psychologist,a primitive defense mechanism,and that if a mothercatches her psyche in the actof toying with the thoughtof dropping her newborn --red-faced-colic or perfect --from a high-rise window,don't worry. Don't worry,she comforted, it's healthy,it's your subconscious's wayof just checking, making sure,you wouldn't do such a thing you cringewhen you find these shadowsamong your brain-folds, don't you? and we pray for ten fingers,ten toes, strong lungs,but our motherhoodis more closely tiedto the fine threads betweenour empathyand disgustfor those who tossthe beauties of their wombs out with yesterday's sour ... more Julie Rumors of Lemonade Thu, 19 Apr 2007 20:28:01 GMT /section-103-rumors-of-lemonade#comments 0 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/2574 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/2574 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A2574