Karen Douglass, Author

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Karen Douglass, Author: Prose & Poetry

  • Slow Exodus

    Four squatters huddle in tents, makeshift and close to traffic on the narrow cement verge of a six-lane boulevard. They dwell in rush hour’s stink, until winter stalks them and heavy snow threatens. They all agree to vacate their flimsy roadside homes before nightfall when city plows will smash them flat. The oldest man leaves […]

    February 1, 2023
  • Reading Lao Tzu

    Before the Old One rode beyond the border between worlds, he said that everything will fall into place, said naming is the origin of things. He spoke of working and stepping back. From the back of his ox this gift, every page a dressing for a wounded mind gauzy as spider web, his wisdom my […]

    January 26, 2023
  • If a Street Could Speak

    It might recite the weight of wheels, copy insults from birds, giggle at the tickle of rabbit feet or mourn the stench of squirrel carcass, at night quake when sirens scream “Bad News, Bad News, Make Way!” but today the pavement bares drifting snow and pleads for the sun’s warmth. Come spring the tar will […]

    January 18, 2023
  • Caught in the Personal

    Looking beyond myself, I see a man in the market stocking ugli fruit. It is too big, too green, too other, alien as a green brain, but said to be cherished by elephants, who cleave its pebbly skin open to reach pulp that holds the seeds. In what famine would it feed me, in what […]

    January 11, 2023
  • Deep Winter

    Imagine a blizzard, a sod house– layers of clothes, extra logs inside, fire stories and white bean soup. Hot tea, oatmeal. Best if you like the people snowed in with you. Firelight, candles, songs, cold feet. Chapped hands darning, knitting, whittling. No clock, only deeper dark and a guide rope strung house to cow shed […]

    January 4, 2023
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