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All the Day
#Reverb12All the Daya composite photograph by Michael Douglas JonesAll the day, at every hour, the travelers wish, and worry; each with equal effect. Here, near the seven mile marker on a hundred mile...
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12/12/12
Written Receipts for Paid AttentionCarolina Wren 12/12/12 by Michael Douglas Jones At 12:12:12pm on 12/12/12, I sat on the small wood wall behind my cottage, near the line of tall pines, beneath the...
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Writing Poetry on Paper Clouds
Written Receipts for Paid AttentionJanuary Crow by Michael Douglas JonesMy poet heart is writing on a pass of paper clouds moving left to write across the frozen northern fields; a crystal breath,...
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The Last Summer
Kids; The Last Summer (Michael & Bruce)I was eleven when we moved to Lock’s Corner, halfway between Fredericksburg and Bowling Green, a few miles east of Guinea Station, where Stonewall Jackson...
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Sunday Morning, 1957
Sunday Morning, 1957. Michael, Jeff, and BruceWhenever I’m in my Jeep and on the road, my soundtrack is playing, even if there is no sound at all. All driving has a soundtrack; I know nothing about...
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On the Equinox
Spring Crow by MichaelDouglasJonesJust south of the Patuxent River headwaters, walk a furlong east of the buffalo road; at the midpoint where the slope between ridge and valley branch calms to a level...
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On the Bethesda Church road, as the storm moves east, beneath the cushion of cloud veiled dawn, a heron angel glides west above the rain wet road that ribbons down the valley of cut corn, to lightly...
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From a rowhouse window, I watch the slightest sliver of waning crescent, quiet as candlelight, at the edge of the eastern horizon, in the crisp November night, three hours before it disappears into...
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This month, writers from all over the world are reflecting on 2013 and thinking ahead to 2014 as part of Reverb 13. This has been an incredibly stressful year for me and I hope to figure it out this...
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Reverb13 Day2: The way we nourish ourselves determines our ability to shine our light in the world. And nourishment doesn't just come in the form of food and drink and sunshine; it's equally important...
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Reverb13 Day3: What does your heart have to tell you?•Oh, Pensée, give me a poet heart, tucked up my sleeve, to tell my secrets with its rhythm; a heart that listens to the new moon night of crow black...
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Your Reach is Wide
#Reverb13 Day 4: What have you lost, what are you grieving?While writing this post, I ride the sideroads and see a lot of whitetail deer, but never one like this. The reach is wide.On that night, the...
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Risk Aversion
#reverb13 Day 5: What was the greatest risk you took in 2013? 1965. Follow the Leader. I'm on the right; no way I’m going higher up that deadfallen tree.•The Walter Mitty in me drives a Jeep Wrangler,...
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Small Moments
#reverb13 Day 6: simple moments, memoriesWhich memories from this year do you wish to keep with you always?Four bluebird chicks waiting. August 2013Every day this year, small moments caught my...
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Selfie
#reverb13 Day 7: Reveal yourself. “Selfie” was selected as 2013 Oxford word of the year; post your favorite picture of yourself from 2013.I haven't taken a selfie in 30 years, and I thought I was so...
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#reverb13 Day 11. What challenges lie ahead in 2014? How might you meet them boldly? •Be quiet now, and listen to the soil moving slowly into solstice. Come, with me, out before the new morning of the...
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I Ride the Side Roads
#reverb13 Day 14: DecisionsWhat was the best decision you made in 2013?This is why I ride the side roads. Sunrise on Friday, December 13 on Price's distillery road, near the burnt hill road. This year,...
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Full Measure
#reverb13 Day 16: Habits and addictionsStep and StumbleKat McNally writes, "Today's post and image come from master wordsmith and craft beer connoisseur, Michael Douglas Jones. How Michael manages to...
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My Name
#reverb13: The way forwardForgotten railroad tracksFrederick, Maryland. December 31, 2013•The long nights of winter offer no rest; awake, I ache, my face wet with worry from false thoughts and hurtful...
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Courage #AprilMoon14● This day's sun slips through the thornapple branches in jagged cuts of light and night. I rise with its pain, and listen, but Courage does not call out commands, or curse from...
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