POETS SALON
– 11/27/19
Hosted by Kath Abela Wilson
twenty feet in the air
first time I flew he says
weeks by his side
while they repaired his wings
my resilient husband~ Kath Abela
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Details from a painting by Michele L. Harvey
Christina Martin
a rough point
on the side of the wind
gulls nest
bathed in evening
ledges full of brave wings
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Sailboat (Photo – Michele L. Harvey)
Michele L. Harvey
harbor gulls
laugh madly overhead…
after weeks
of waiting like sailors’ wives
their ship has come in toothe white spume
of gulls fills a black sky
above the sailor
gutting his catch
as his ship steams to shoreeverpresent
on my sea of memory
you ride the waves
like some lone seabird
who has no other homeshowing me
the shorthand for a seabird
the artist
who sells drawings in the street
has asked me for my handto be that bird
secure upon the sea
from wingtip to wingtip
all that she knows
is home
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Cooperstown sailboat gravestone (Photo – Michele L. Harvey
Jules Leigh Koch
gulls wings
tilt the sky
while the horizon
still manages to draw
a straight linein the beach carpark
a man is folding up
his child’s pram as delicately
as gull wings fold in the sky
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Seagull balancing at Ventura Beach (Photo – Kath Abela Wilson)
Brave Wings: Quotes and Credits
Christina Martin lives in West Wales, in the UK, with her husband Denis, by the sea and its ever-changing moods. Her interest in writing began at an early age. Plant-life and birds are two of her great loves.
Michele L. Harvey has called many ports home via her poetry, and what better place to ply than the sea of memory? On land, she sails between rural Hamilton and urban Brooklyn, New York, mooring for six months at either end.
Jules Leigh Koch has published four collections of poetry. He also has worked as a mentor with writers from the Richard Llewellyn Arts and Disability Trust. Koch works as an educator in his local primary school.
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The first Thanksgiving dinner after my Mom died of ovarian cancer at age 46
was my apartment in New Jersey, the state where my Mom grew up.
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My cooking, widower Dad, brothers Andy and Nicholas
just before they arrived, while turkey in over, toilet overflowed, so sewage clean up…
Act normal. I’m eldest son of eldest son of eldest son
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Bother Andy screamed THIS IS WRONG
and threw something against the wall
Nicholas repaired the plasterboard
and the tragic past was painted over
Repairing small holes in
plasterboard walls
Assess the damage
The method of repair depends upon the degree of damage, the first thing to look at is the thick paper on the back of the plasterboard to see if the damage is restricted to just the front surface and plaster core or if it goes all the way through the plasterboard.
Dealing with the repair
If the damage is restricted to just the front surface and the core, the backing paper of the plasterboard will still be intact:-
Use a sharp craft knife to cut away any plaster skim and the front paper of the plasterboard to expose the plaster core – remove all the broken and damaged plaster from the core.
Clean out the hole using a small, dry brush.
Mix up some plaster filler and, when it is ready to use, use a small brush or water spray to dampen the inside (back and sides) of the hole – but don’t over soak the plasterboard.
Fill the hole with plaster filler using a filling knife so that it is slightly above the surrounding wall surface, make sure that the filler is pushed well into the edges of the hole.
Using a wet filling knife level off the filler to the surrounding surface – if the hole is too wide for the filler knife, run the knife around the edges and then across the middle of the repair.
The filler may shrink as it hardens, so the repair may need to be recovered with plaster filler and releveled. Before applying additional layers, lightly sand the repair and surrounding plaster and moisten the surface.