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bermudaonion.wordpress.com Poem of the Day: Song for the Last Act by Louise Bogan "Now that I have your heart by heart, I see The wharves with their great ships and architraves; "  Poetry Foundation An architrave (/ˈɑrkɨtreɪv/; from Italian: architrave , also called an epistyle; from Greek ἐπίστυλον epistylon "door frame") is the lintel or beam that rests on the capitals of the columns. It is an architectural element in Classical architecture. google.com/search?q=architraves+define textramarital   " Recently reissued by New York Review Books, this once-obscure novel, about a textramarital affair between two college instructors, is enjoying a second life as a contemporary classic." readitforward.com/bookshelf/14-campus-novels-will-make-want-go-back-school/   The art of cheating on your partner using text messages. http://www.urbandictionary.com

"As if it were that simple. I open my mouth to tell him I can't, but all I do is wheeze, and my head is light and I wonder if this is what dying feels like. And then I think how nice it is for Jack's face to be the last thing I see." http://adailyrhythm.com

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.   --Isaac Asimov Daisy Richards has beat cancer in the past. However, after a few years, the news from Doctor Sanderson is far more difficult for her and Jack to handle. This time the cancer has spread throughout Daisy's body. She has only four to six months to live. The novel before i go by Colleen Oakley is about how Daisy, Jack, her mother and her friends react to this news. It's also about what will Daisy choose to do with the remainder of her life? This novel will break your heart and mend it again. Daisy seems like a  real person. Many times I thought, "Well, I would react the same way as Daisy in this situation." I thought this way when she bought bunches and bunches of groceries she didn't need. I could also understand when she became so terribly angry with Kayleigh, her friend. Horrible feelings about Kayleigh flew out of her mouth like birds taking flight. Dai

http://bookjourney.wordpress.com I finished Star Side of Bird Hill by Naomi Jackson. Now I'm reading before i go by Colleen Oakley. Next I need to read Only with Blood by Therese Down.

"With her squealing silenced by food, the house is quiet and I wonder for a moment how long I can stand exactly where I am, not making a sound. Maybe Sammy will just leave. Maybe she already has." http://www.fredasvoice.blogspot.com  

http://bermudaonion.net/2015/08/05/wondrous-words-wednesday-337/ christophine (chayote) the pear-shaped fruit of a West Indian annual vine ( Sechium edule ) of the gourd family that is widely cultivated as a vegetable; also :   the plant —called also chayote squash, christophene, mirliton merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chayote eddoes a taro corm or plant, especially of a West Indian variety with many edible cormlets. google.com/search?q=eddo&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8 cassava 1. A shrubby tropical American plant (Manihot esculenta) widely grown for its large, tuberous, starchy roots. 2. The root of this plant, eaten as a staple food in the tropics only after leaching and drying to remove cyanide. Cassava starch is also the source of tapioca. In both senses also called manioc , yuca . thefreedictionary.com/cassava

Two sisters, Dionne and Phaedra, live with their mother, Avril, in Brooklyn, New York.  Because of their mother's depression and her struggle to make a living as a single parent they are sent to live with their Grandmother  in St. Johns, Barbados. Naomi Jackson in The Star Side Of Bird Hill writes in detail about what happens to two teen-age girls as they face death and violence.What happens is unexpected and at times, very sad. For example, while in Barbados, Dionne and Phaedra will hear the most horrible news about their mother. The way both sisters handle the situation is extraordinary. Maybe too extraordinary? Such news must work on the inner soul of a  person for a long while. Then, the father, Errol, comes along with a new lady friend. He just ups the level of stress in the lives of the sisters and the grandmother. Sometimes people come to rescue the ones they love and end up almost destroying them. I was struck by how quickly reality can slam into our lives. Sometim