Tim pie face circa 1980, not of Frances’s dream January 12, 1989 I woke from this dream. Timothy and I are sitting on top of a very large apple pie, a mountain of apple pie. I dig my finger into the middle, it turns to crisp paper, which we peel back. We are on the […]
Frances’s fake glower surrounded by books and shoes from the second hand store Mountain View, CA, 1985 When Timothy and I moved to Silicon Valley we lived in a chicken coop for almost two months. Rent was so outrageously high that we decided to camp out of our VW bug. Even a lousy roach-infested hotel
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Mountain View: July 2, 1984 We live in a chicken coop. Across the street from Tim’s job at Acuson. Every weeknight, Sunday through Thursday, we wait until dark and drive back into the old walnut orchard behind the house that’s set for demolition – broken windows, floor strewn with litter: old books and magazines, a
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Clear Creek, near San Benito Mountain, California, 1988 Tuesday, May 17th We found this camp on the way out last week, I remembered it from when we came in Saturday night, the first camp, now empty. We like it a lot. Plenty of trees, pretty flat, separated from the road by a short driveway, down.
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September 15, 1994 The baby sleeps in the other room safe and warm in my big bed, peaceful. She’ll wake up soon, fussing a little, forgetting for a minute where she is. I’ll pick her up, wrap her in her small blanket. We’ll sit in the old rocking chair, she’ll wake up slowly. She’ll be
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February 1982 SUNSET HOTEL Ballard District, Seattle, Washington We hide in the closet every day, the telling smell of the forbidden fruit for which some dread thing will happen to us if it be known, here in this old hotel. Huge wide corridors, painted walkways, squared in green and light green. Alice’s tunnel. Pete lives
May 1974, Mendocino, California Cows on the Road I got a job as Community Health Representative for the Mendocino County Indian Health Board, $650 a month, plenty enough for me and my kids to live on. We were trying to escape from a drunken, abusive husband and were scouting for a cheap rental. It started with
Clear Creek near San Benito Mountain, California, 1988 Thursday, May 12th It’s getting hotter. The big tarps flap in the cooling breeze, our truck is totally hidden under it’s blue house, held up by tent poles, guy-wired and secured with fat long nails pounded into the rocky ground. Clear Creek. Motorcycle country. All day we’ll
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I’ve never stolen anything in my life, except for that Christmas tree. Three of my six kids lived with me in the old tank house behind the Yum Yum Bakery in small town Ft. Bragg. Got the lights turned back on, and our food stamps arrived at the Mendocino post office so we could have Christmas
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Composed and paraphrased by Frances Cast of Characters Diotima: A no-nonsense woman, probably made up by Socrates, with the help of Plato, who probably made him up. Scene Agathon and Aristophanes have invited Diotima to a get together after the presentation of a trilogy by Sophocles, who is present along with Ion, Alchibiades, Apollodorus, and others. By