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Michael Hawes
- Feb 26, 2022
- 5 min
O Milagre do Pássaro
The tragedy of his wife's condition had been perfectly met by the care and tenderness of her husband. It was a daily lesson for me.
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Michael Hawes
- Feb 15, 2022
- 11 min
Shoeshine
You can give a boy a shoeshine kit but you can't change the fact he's a hunter/gatherer.
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Michael Hawes
- Feb 5, 2022
- 8 min
Take It On The Chin
In which I am saved from serious injury by an ancestral Calabrian grape-vine.
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Michael Hawes
- Feb 4, 2022
- 8 min
It's In The Gumbo
My Texas Cherokee grandma and I have one last "Big Time" and she gets a job offer from blues legend, Gatemouth Brown.
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Michael Hawes
- Jan 30, 2022
- 10 min
Big Boys Don’t Cry
In which, at long last, I allow myself to cry.
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Michael Hawes
- Jan 14, 2022
- 8 min
Recognizing Your Own
On finding your family, pondering hidden siblings and a tribute to my friend, Ms. Judy Joe.
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Michael Hawes
- Jan 3, 2022
- 5 min
La Fanciulla Che Ha Dormito Con Me
On a beach in Algeciras, a sister-soul warms the foggy night, saves her dignity and gifts me with the scent of her hair.
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Michael Hawes
- Dec 20, 2021
- 12 min
Settling In To A Dreamless Sleep
Wedding rings, dreams, kokopillau, lightning trees, wanderers and a cotton thread running from ancient Egypt to Early Texas.
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Michael Hawes
- Dec 19, 2021
- 11 min
On Women and Horses
If we could actually understand the bond between a man and a woman, we would have destroyed that bond which is rooted in the Mystery.
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Michael Hawes
- Dec 7, 2021
- 24 min
Truck Stop
Word sketches written on paper place mats at a truck stop. -with a humble Irish tip of the hat to J. P. Donleavy
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Michael Hawes
- Dec 5, 2021
- 8 min
Thermocouple
About my first cat, Thermocouple. In time, I learned that cats are not at all like wolves and in fact, they resent the comparison.
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Michael Hawes
- Nov 20, 2021
- 5 min
馬薇薇
A letter to the positive aspects of femininity, which at the time of writing were embodied in a young woman twenty years my junior.
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