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Community News Important Update: Transition from pathetic.org to eMuse.org - 03/16/2025 by Gavin M Roy After years of intermittent development, eMuse is almost ready to launch. As part of this transition, pathetic.org will be shutdown and will redirect to eMuse.org. What you need to know: * No accounts will be automatically created * No content will be automatically transferred * When creating your new eMuse account, you'll have the option to import your data from pathetic.org We look forward to welcoming you to the new platform. Hello, Survivors of 2020! - 01/03/2021 by V. Blake Please check my post out in the General forum when you have a moment. Thanks! Stay Healthy - 03/18/2020 by V. Blake Hope you and yours are well. A Congratulations to Leonard M Hawkes - 03/27/2019 by V. Blake ..who just published his first volume of poetry! Entitled Leaves from my Box Elder, it comes just in time for the 150th anniversary of the driving of the Golden Spike. So, like the title says--congrats, Leonard! Older News

Poem of the Day for 11/14/26 Proposal by Christina Gleason My friends say we will marry, but I have not asked. After one year, I will take a flower and tack it to our wall, and after one year more if it is still whole, all dry, I will consider it. These are the superstitions of the great-aunts I have not seen since Montpelier, ten years old, a flat cylinder of a girl. When I found a box in my mother's closet with twenty-one rose stems, and a bag of bulbs, I took them. They were small and brown, and she would not plant them in the yards of her second and third loves. I have watched her grow dense and green and low, among the weeds, no single stalks. My father lost. He had an herb garden and passed it on to me. I eat its basil whole, let the flat leaves fold around my teeth, chew the vein, drown the rest in the sauce his mother taught me to make before she died. I still take tomatoes off the vine from my uncle's garden, and distill them onto dinner plates. On our table, we keep our vase - it fills and fills with scraps of paper. 03/10/2005 Visit Christina Gleason's Library Proposal Copyright © 2026 Christina Gleason

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