Category: POETRY & PROSE

Crystalline Delicious

Published September 21, 2014 by jackiecioffa

I wrote The Vast Landscape, mostly to stay alive. Because I HATE the word BiPolar and all it has taken, not only from me but…

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The Greens I Have Seen

Published September 4, 2014 by jackiecioffa

I never liked nature. Or, so I thought. The walk is hard, I don’t adapt well to change. Life is about comings and goings. I…

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Comings and Goings

Published August 20, 2014 by jackiecioffa

Because it’s raining, and my mother sits in the kitchen with a pencil reading Georgia Pine., first edits. I reflect. Typing in my Zen room, deep in the…

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Streaming Ties That Bind: 'She never laughed anymore. Nothing was fun; life was not a game.'

Streaming Ties That Bind: 'She never laughed anymore. Nothing was fun; life was not a game.'

Published February 18, 2014 by jackiecioffa

She disappeared inside the land of make-believe, filled with Crayola crayons so bright she wore tinted sunglasses I always thought true love was equivalent to good…

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Looking Glass and The Windowpane

Published September 24, 2013 by jackiecioffa

Let’s face it; there’s no fooling. The sagging skin, the wrinkled face, the ridiculous forty something woman in short skirts and bottled-up Botox. The gravitational…

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Embers and Ash

Embers and Ash

Published September 23, 2013 by jackiecioffa

I wrote EMBERS AND ASH some years ago, or so. I don’t remember the precise day, I remember the unhappy circumstance. I needed to come…

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