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the official website for the writings of
ralph robert moore
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marginalia
This page is for all the miscellany that doesn't fit into the other sections of SENTENCE.
marginaliatoo much life
frozen
to joan
to betty
everyone who loves you
i will wait for that smile
not
and god said, "lets"
I have always been a fiction writer. I have never been a poet.
What attracts me to poems is that in the best the language is coded. So compressed each word must reflect something additional, often through puns and other forms of wordplay. The language of a poem must not only form the vase, but break apart into the faces in profile.
A while ago I started writing poetry again for the first time since adolescence, pages of it, each page flipped over on the legal-sized pad so more stanzas could be scribbled down the bars in the bluest ink. When I was finished, I tossed all these early efforts into the bottom drawer of a cabinet in a back room, and started all over again.
marginaliaMy wife had a severe stroke in April of 2002.
At one point I looked on the Internet for information about strokes, and although there were quite a few stroke sites, there wasn't really a one-page reference source for general stroke information that discussed all aspects of stroke, such as types of stroke, causes, preventive measures, treatment of aphasia, and so on.
Thinking it might be helpful for others if such a one-page source existed, I created my Stroke Information page. I hope it's of some use.
marginaliaThe bibliography lists my published and unpublished writings (except that most writings appearing on SENTENCE -- Lately entries, essays, poems, one-paragraph stories, special fiction projects, miscellaneous items -- are not included in the bibliography.)