Susan M. Schultz's Blog

Drafts of prose poems about memory and forgetting.

Thursday, December 18, 2025

from Startles

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  Startles Many of the details have been incorrect, but they made such good stories. The truths they assigned to us didn’t c...
Tuesday, December 16, 2025

Chinatown crackseed blues

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After coffee in Chinatown, my friend Beth Yahp (here from Sydney to see family) and I wandered into a store full of large bags of crackseed ...
Monday, December 8, 2025

"You only give me your funny papers"

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  The man in his 60s had been talking to people at the United gate; he was clearly a man who liked to converse. We sat next to each other in...
Monday, November 24, 2025

No country for old dogs

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This is no country for old dogs. Behind the fence around her small concrete lanai, in the sun Sweetie resembles a prisoner, shadowed slats r...
Saturday, November 22, 2025

A poetry of quietude

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"SMILE! You are on voice and video cameras!" reads a new sign at the ticket shack outside the Temple. I look in on the woman we us...
Sunday, November 2, 2025

You're the robot!

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A and B were talking just outside the guard shack, so Lilith and I approached. B said he was fine, well not fine, and he pointed at the new ...
Saturday, November 1, 2025

Union brothers

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Heading uphill toward what once was Ferdinand Marcos's grave, Lilith and I encountered a short Filipino man power washing stone walls. H...
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