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Oct 13, 2020

Returning Home after the Fire Evacuation

just one sleep in my own bed away from the 9-day fire evacuation to the city hotel I ache to ground myself here planting as symbol a...

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Vilma Ginzberg

Sep 10, 2020

Evacuation Alert

I waken to the sky a peachy pink hue its beauty entrancing the black widow of weather I sense its danger the air thick to breathe and...

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Vilma Ginzberg

Aug 24, 2020

Tinderbox

The fires have begun again in our tinderbox state of California. Last February, our usual rainy season, saw literally not one drop of...

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Vilma Ginzberg

Aug 21, 2020

Orangeman Business Plan

Wrong Man for the Presidency Aside from any flaws or failings he brings with him, there is an objective, non-partisan reason that Donald...

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Vilma Ginzberg

Aug 12, 2020

Rift Valley, Kenya, August 1989

Talking with a friend about the Black Lives Matter movement, it occurred to me that if indeed Lucy was the first humanoid, and she was...

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Vilma Ginzberg

Jul 10, 2020

Behind our masks

I cannot make out your delicate meanings and under my masked and muffled words you cannot hear the subtleties of mine denied hugs...

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Vilma Ginzberg

May 5, 2020

Shelter in place 2

I slog through my days sisters indistinguishable from each other anonymous oneday thisday sameday like day like day like day once I...

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Vilma Ginzberg

Apr 6, 2020

Shelter in place

feeling alone being alone when “we are all in this together” bends my mind’s credibility oxymoron of the times touch me with your words...

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Vilma Ginzberg

Mar 22, 2020

Corona

this sub-micro-organism has paralyzed a planet and in our standstill and from our careful distances we breathe the clearer air practice...

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