Tag: personal story

Navigating the Inner Sea: The Poetic Influences of Dawn Bodrogi

I learned about poetry in an unusual way, thanks to my sister, Dawn. When I was in my early teens, Dawn would have her college friends over for the holidays. After a few cocktails, they would often start reciting T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.” It was always a lively performance; they…

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Astrology of Now: Between the Eclipses

Subscribers to the horoscopes already know that I had my own private eclipse at the end of January: my darling mother died. Here’s some of what I wrote then: “She went back to bed one morning, feeling a little odd — and never got up. Yes, she had a Leo Moon, right in the path of that eclipse. Appropriately for me, at the heart of the eclipse was Ceres, the planet of motherhood and cherishing, and the only retrograde planet in the sky at that moment. “My mother had some of the most enviable attributes of a Libra Sun — […]

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