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I spend most of my time playing alpha female for my pack of dogs. Lucy (Boston terrier), Harley (chihuahua). Hershey (miniature dachshund) and Jasper (standard schnauzer) are my entertainment and sometimes muses. Jasper is a puppy mill rescue dog and I'm in the intital stages of writing a series of vignettes of his life since the rescue contrasted with eduaction about rescues and puppy mills. I do actually have other interests than writing and my dogs. I love to scrapbook, watch ice hockey, listen to a variety of music genres and reading. My parents both were avid readers and passed that love on to me. I'll read a cereal box if you set it in front of me!
Walking Wounded
Walking Wounded

I came home
sound of body
but not of mind.
People I've known
all my life,
this neighborhood,
this country
are foreign to me.
Every loud sound,
a gunshot or bomb.
Close my eyes,
yet I see:
blood, bodies
theirs and ours.
I hear screams
of the wounded
and dying.
I hear other screams--
mine.
My body is here,
my mind still over there.
How do I find a
fraction of an equivalent
of the man I was
before war
came calling?
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