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Once, He Went Out Dancing 

March 31, 2021 /

POET & ARTIST

Adrienne Asher’s poems explore ways of finding what female agency and power look like in mythology and history, how to love what perishes, and how our lives resemble and differ from our animal cousins. Her painting in oil range from realism and abstract, depending on the season. She lives in the Pacific Northwest with her musician partner, a Maine Coon cat, and nine miles of books. 

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nuff said nuff said
From the illimitable Mary Oliver From the illimitable Mary Oliver
#roevwade #roevwade
Confirmed! Confirmed!
Your morning’s respite. #poetry Your morning’s respite.

#poetry
#IrishWomenPoets That the Science of Cartography #IrishWomenPoets 

That the Science of Cartography Is Limited

—and not simply by the fact that this shading of
forest cannot show the fragrance of balsam,
the gloom of cypresses,
is what I wish to prove.

When you and I were first in love we drove
to the borders of Connacht
and entered a wood there.

Look down you said: this was once a famine road.

I looked down at ivy and the scutch grass
rough-cast stone had
disappeared into as you told me
in the second winter of their ordeal, in

1847, when the crop had failed twice,
Relief Committees gave
the starving Irish such roads to build.

Where they died, there the road ended

and ends still and when I take down
the map of this island, it is never so
I can say here is
the masterful, the apt rendering of
the spherical as flat, nor
an ingenious design which persuades a curve
into a plane,
but to tell myself again that

the line which says woodland and cries hunger
and gives out among sweet pine and cypress,
and finds no horizon

will not be there.

—Eavan Boland

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Photo I took from Ladies View, Killarney Park, Ireland.
“I love big butts and I cannot lie.” (paintin “I love big butts and I cannot lie.”

(painting by Maggie Vandewalle)
Making Chocolate-Guinness Pots de Creme to finish Making Chocolate-Guinness Pots de Creme to finish our very American Corned Beef and Cabbage dinner for St. Patrick’s Day.

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Recipes for both corned beef and the pots de creme over on my food blog at BlackberrySeason.com
#keto #lowcarb
#istandwithukraine *** Illustration by @booboo_ #istandwithukraine 

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Illustration by @booboo_tannenbaum

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