New Stories & Spells:

The News Ticker will appear here on the published site.

The Breadcrumbs widget will appear here on the published site.

Poem: Show and Tell

12/19/2014

Show and Tell

By Colleen Foster
QuailBellMagazine.com

Some untampered-with, tousled

pre-9/11 version of herself
whose internet still dialed
sat criss-cross-applesauce on the oriental rug
playing not with Barbies but with matches.

Potentially an act of arson small enough for the dollhouse,
but it stayed safely stashed in the upstairs attic
shrouded in a black plastic bag.

The useless wisps of smoke
curled into
the coveted hourglass
shape that’s meaningless when

you’re
a
single
digit.

When Mom(my) and Dad(dy) got home,
the slacker babysitter would have no explanation
for the ashy smudges, shoulders shrugging off the post-snack activity
like graham cracker crumbs.

No blood (to be absorbed like a secret),
no foul (odor to be Secret-masked).

For the meantime, all was left unadulterated.

#Unreal #Childhood #Prepubescent #Nostalgia #Memories #WhenIWasAGirl #WayBackThen #ThrowBack #AsAKid

Visit our shop and subscribe. Sponsor us. Submit and become a contributor. Like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter.

You Might Also Like

The Recommended Posts widget will appear here on the published site.

First Last

Comments

Comments are closed.

Our go-to spell: Art + Ideas = Magic.

The Lastest Posts widget will appear here on the published site.

The Most Popular Posts widget will appear here on the published site.

How to Setup Solar

Step 1. Create a Homepage

Even if you already have a home page, you'll need to create a new one since Solar needs a blank page to automatically pull and display your blog posts in the magazine layout. You can create a new homepage by going to "Pages" at the top, click on the "+" icon and select "Standard" page.

Step 2. Apply "solar" Page Layout

Once you create a new homepage, apply the "solar" page layout to the new homepage. You can do this by clicking on "Pages" at the top, select the homepage on the left, and under "HEADER TYPE", select "solar".

Step 3. Create A Blog

If your site doesn't have a Weebly "Blog" page, then create a new "Blog" page. You can do this by clicking on "Pages" at the top, click on the "+" icon and select "Blog Page".

Step 4. Setup Blog Automation

Come back to this screen and fill in the input boxes with the URL of your "Blog" page and 3 category URLs from that blog.

Blog Automation Setup

SOLAR's 'Blog Automation' feature automatically pulls content from your blog and displays it on other parts of your site. In order to activate this feature, simply add the URL of your blog, and the URL of 3 categories from your blog, to the input boxes below.

Blog's URL

Activates Owl carousel slider, ticker, breadcrumbs and latest posts (e.g., https://www.mysite.com/blog.html).

http://www.quailbellmagazine.com/the-real-20

Category 1 URL

Activates category 1 section on 'Solar' page layout (e.g., https://www.mysite.com/blog/category/dog.html).

http://www.quailbellmagazine.com/the-unreal-20

Category 2 URL

Activates category 2 section on 'Solar' page layout (e.g., https://www.mysite.com/blog/category/cat.html).

http://www.quailbellmagazine.com/news-from-the-nest

Category 3 URL

Activates category 3 section on 'Solar' page layout (e.g., https://www.mysite.com/blog/category/bird.html).

http://www.quailbellmagazine.com/quail-bell-affiliates

Note: You can hide this box under "Theme>Theme Options>Automation [Editor Only]".

Need support? We've got your back!