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The Ping Pong Mind

Posted on March 6, 2022 by jillbpearlman

It’s hard to concentrate.  Ping pong of the mind is in play — sometimes that restless movement is productive, but not now.  I’m sitting on home, but mind is racing through history, through ditches and pogroms, uneasy peace, good & … Continue reading →

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Mixed Marriages

Posted on February 27, 2022 by jillbpearlman

Mixed marriages make up much of life.My nose that lives with my two eyes is a mixed marriage.          (How does my nose live when eyes look down on it?) Body and soul share grief and dreams in … Continue reading →

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(Valentine) Birds of Play

Posted on February 13, 2022 by jillbpearlman

A game of hide and seek, the birds inside the boxwoods making shrubbery sing and trill its desire (reminding me  of other bushes that burn with fire). As I pass, they quiet.  I move, they start again, we play this … Continue reading →

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driveway Olympics

Posted on February 6, 2022 by jillbpearlman

The world iced, every inch glistening in the sun. Zigzag tracks of our house cat that has walked away. Across the bay, a tanker moves at a glacier’s pace.   V is talking — the garage door pasted shut, my … Continue reading →

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Digging Out, Literally!

Posted on January 30, 2022 by jillbpearlman

The fun of digging out is that we are digging out from what we are seldom digging out from.   We are not working our way out of spates and chains of email, nor piles of snail mail, nor escaping … Continue reading →

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Le Noir (Winter Beach)

Posted on January 23, 2022 by jillbpearlman

Le Noir (Winter Beach) Not so fast, walkeron the winter beach under a shrouded moon.Desire far outstrips your first unsteady steps.No sight, no fixed points: Recalibrate. A roar answersyour question before it’s asked.

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The Values of Black

Posted on January 16, 2022 by jillbpearlman

Black being such a glorious color, it’s unfair to see it maligned in the season of light.  During those holiday weeks of celebrating “light,” all those little pinpricks stung me and made me think, in a Baudelairean way, about its … Continue reading →

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Merry Quarantine

Posted on January 2, 2022 by jillbpearlman

The quarantine was stunning, Covid we could have done without.A walk on the snow-covered beach the last outing before we took to our big old house full of windows — the outside world just beyond the dimpled glass: great rolling heaves … Continue reading →

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The Home Groove

Posted on December 19, 2021 by jillbpearlman

This past week I’ve been flashing on Penelope Fitzgerald’s scintillating descriptions of preparing a house.  Her novel “Blue Flower,” set in the 18th century, is full of the bright crush of domestic detail, the half-laborious, half-ecstatic ritual of organizing a … Continue reading →

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What Asked to Come Back from the Trip

Posted on December 12, 2021 by jillbpearlman

One charming cliche pops up when you are going on a trip — people ask, can you pack me in your suitcase?  When you’re returning, it’s a moot point.  Or is it?    I wouldn’t have known it when I … Continue reading →

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