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  Gabrielle Milanich June 23, 2010 at 8:46pm

  Thanks so much for this forum, Jeanne. Four topic ideas later, I'm hand-fasted to an idea that asks, no demands, in a way only a lover has the right to do, that I become who I already am! And so it's through these words that I'm now hand-fasted... (From Pablo Naruda, la poesia)
  ...And something ignited in my soul,
  fever or unrememberd wings,
  and I went my own way,
  deciphering
  that burning fire
  and I wrote the first bare line,
  bare, without substance, pure
  foolishness,
  pure wisdom
  of one who knows nothing,
  and suddenly I saw
  the heavens
  unfastened
  and open.
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  Jeanne M. Schul June 23, 2010 at 3:28pm

  Dissertation as Lover
  The dissertation lover is a complex creature:
  Sometimes so easy to be with,
  Seducing me away from more concrete pleasures,
  Until I want only to be with him—
  Work and world be damned!
  Then, at other times,
  I can't stand to be in the same room with him,
  Because he makes me so aware of how lost and alone I am.
  Ah, the push and pull of romance, right here at the keyboard!