Ohhhh man.
This just makes me so so sad.
Maz was the best.
So frisky and fun and sizzlingly sweet.
And, as everyone’s well aware by now, talented beyond belief.
I know you’re gonna think this is way way weird but there’s been a 3-inch tall squishy smiley bright-turquoise teddy-bear with a rose on his noggin and an embroidered whale-tail on his chest sitting on my desk, grinning at me from less than a foot away here, for something like six years now. Maz sent it to me along with a roll of lovely lavender-scented drawer-liner paper. Totally out of the blue.
Once upon a time, back in 2002/2003 maybe, I launched a challenge at one of the other poetry-sites, and she (one of the winners) sent the (even-more-precious-now) goodies as a kind of a thank you for the (totally lame) prize I’d sent off to her.
Several computer-crashes down the line here, I’m sorry to say I don’t have her poem. What a loss. And we never really kept in touch, other than to bump into one another on the boards now and again.
Janice? I remember very well the precise poem you refer to. My guess is was in the Spring of 2008. And it WAS an amazing piece! I would LOVE to read that one again. Totally wildly brain-bustingly different from anything I’d ever seen her write before. It sounded like she was very very much in love.
--Pua, in tears
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