Kentucky Panhandler

This was taken on a recent trip through Kentucky!  :)

How to Blow a Bubble!

If only balloon did not lose their air!  This was photographed in a school hallway.  The students were asked how to blow a bubble.  The balloon used to be full of air.  It's a good thing that the kids are to young to realize the funniness of this.

PATHETIC FALLACY by Mary Karr

PATHETIC FALLACY
by Mary Karr

When it became impossible to speak to you
due to your having died and been incinerated,
I sometimes held the uncradled phone

with its neat digits and arcane symbols (crosshatch,
black star) as if embedded in it
were some code I could punch in

to reach you. You bequeathed me
this morbid bent, Mother.
Who gives her sixth-grade daughter

Sartre’s Nausea to read? All my life,
I watched you face the void,
leaning into it as a child with a black balloon

will bury her countenance
either to hide from
or to merge with that darkness.

Small wonder that still
in the invisible scrim of air
that delineates our separate worlds,

your features sometimes press toward me
all silvery from the afterlife, woven in wind,
to whisper a caution. Or your hand on my back

shoves me into my life.