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Water Mask (The Alaska Literary Series)
In Water Mask, Monica Devine skis woodland trails with her baby on her back, navigates sea ice with Beaufort Sea whalers and whirls two thousand feet above the tundra with a rookie bush pilot. She negotiates the death of her father, and the near loss of her family's cabin on the Copper River. Reflections on family, place, memory, work, perception and art are woven into a seductive tapestry...in a land that both beguiles and rejects.
I Have Fallen Into the Sun
Like failed planets and moons that have lost their mass, I too, have fallen into the sun. Amplified sunlight to the nth power re-quires re-calibration, a separate orientation. We, the ...
Read More A Warm Christmas
Christmas on the Coast from monica devine on Vimeo. Persimmons, birds-of-paradise green and blue, lovely Pacific breezes. Christmas in a warm place, where flowers are in bloom, and the air ...
Read More Winter in Alaska
Winter in Alaska from monica devine on Vimeo.In a few days, we'll be on our way to California for Christmas with our grown children; away from the snow and cold, ...
Read More GOOD FOOTING: A poem
At twenty below the moon comes up in blue daylight; our mattress, dense with sleeping bags and white feather pillows belies any sense of warmth-slash- comfort. (pretense): ...
Read More The Purpose of Fun is to Have It
Someone once said the opposite of play is not work: it's depression. Play: a creative way to become un-balled up (my definition). To become un-self-conscious. Un-clutched. Un-moored & "in" the ...
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