tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55222298543069752152024-03-18T19:58:18.070-07:00Rebbitzin's Tattoopoems by Franci Levine-GraterFranci Levine-Graterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03494829741420100030noreply@blogger.comBlogger250125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5522229854306975215.post-11624870275721964112023-10-09T23:15:00.001-07:002023-10-09T23:15:45.605-07:00 ענין רע<div style="text-align: left;"><i>a found poem</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>(source: Beloved by Toni Morrison)</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2"><span style="font-family: inherit;">the deeper and more tangled</span></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2"><span style="font-family: inherit;">the jungle grew inside</span></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2"><span style="font-family: inherit;">(this must be written</span></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2"><span style="font-family: inherit;">in red ink)</span></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2"><span style="font-family: inherit;">it spread, touched them every one</span></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2"><span style="font-family: inherit;">made them bloody</span></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2"><span style="font-family: inherit;">so scared were they</span></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2"><span style="font-family: inherit;">of the jungle they had made</span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2"><span style="font-family: inherit;">a person that wept, sighed, trembled, fell</span></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2"><span style="font-family: inherit;">a breastplate of darkness</span></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2"><span style="font-family: inherit;">straddled by the activity of the dead</span></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2"><span style="font-family: inherit;">a loaf of flesh, sticky and sour</span></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2"><span style="font-family: inherit;">in a hole or kneeling</span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Look.</span></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2"><span style="font-family: inherit;">What is it?</span></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Me and You.</span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="s2"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2"><span style="font-family: inherit;">We got more yesterdays than anybody</span></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2"><span style="font-family: inherit;">We need some kind of tomorrow</span></span></p>Franci Levine-Graterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03494829741420100030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5522229854306975215.post-75597161028798648472023-05-24T23:27:00.000-07:002023-05-24T23:27:02.129-07:00What Do I Want?<p>To know where that ladder goes</p><p>To know what this bug thinks</p><p>To pull every invading weed</p><p>To not perceive growth as invasive</p><p>To share with dear, deep friends</p><p>To be alone</p><p>To generate syntactical repetition</p><p>To be incessantly unique</p><p> To recognize your voice</p><p>To formally assert your favorite idea</p><p>To be free</p><p><br /></p>Franci Levine-Graterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03494829741420100030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5522229854306975215.post-39845845322915955342023-03-10T08:44:00.004-08:002023-03-10T08:44:54.941-08:00<p>wiling away time</p><p>on a rainy morning with</p><p>you, my true heaven</p><p><br /></p>Franci Levine-Graterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03494829741420100030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5522229854306975215.post-52846127772351082452023-02-04T23:37:00.000-08:002023-02-04T23:37:02.210-08:00You Call To Me<p>local coyote</p><p>hit on Allen Avenue</p><p>today breaks my heart</p>Franci Levine-Graterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03494829741420100030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5522229854306975215.post-49692984484351013582023-01-29T22:36:00.003-08:002023-01-29T22:36:40.452-08:00unable to write<div>about last night’s ugly dream</div><div>but can’t shake it</div>Franci Levine-Graterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03494829741420100030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5522229854306975215.post-49013063082334791532023-01-17T23:22:00.001-08:002023-01-17T23:22:05.019-08:00<p>notice the new growth,</p><p>long limbs, nearby friends — even</p><p>the power line adds beauty</p>Franci Levine-Graterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03494829741420100030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5522229854306975215.post-58243696409357558502023-01-14T21:37:00.003-08:002023-01-14T21:37:16.150-08:00<p>one leaf falls among</p><p>countless raindrops, seeking friends</p><p>who share dreams of flight</p>Franci Levine-Graterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03494829741420100030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5522229854306975215.post-27018736800751710182023-01-12T20:49:00.001-08:002023-01-12T20:49:15.620-08:00In a Forest<p> a green sapling grows</p><p>sturdy, verdant and rooted</p><p>beside its mother<br /></p>Franci Levine-Graterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03494829741420100030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5522229854306975215.post-86173353520342829542023-01-04T17:31:00.000-08:002023-01-04T17:31:10.754-08:00<div style="text-align: left;">in darkness, leaves flow by</div><div style="text-align: left;">in the gutter river, but</div><div style="text-align: left;">of course, progress unseen <br /></div>Franci Levine-Graterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03494829741420100030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5522229854306975215.post-711704034275124182023-01-02T09:33:00.004-08:002023-01-04T17:28:28.935-08:00<div style="text-align: left;">roll over to discover</div><div style="text-align: left;">moonglow's reflection on my bedsheet</div><div style="text-align: left;">alerting me to notice</div>Franci Levine-Graterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03494829741420100030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5522229854306975215.post-51037616568067749202023-01-01T15:26:00.002-08:002023-01-04T17:28:40.716-08:00<div style="text-align: left;">New Year’s Day rainbow</div><div style="text-align: left;">fragment, faint spot really -</div><div style="text-align: left;">I cling to the omen, regardless</div>Franci Levine-Graterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03494829741420100030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5522229854306975215.post-74941984079354317422022-12-31T23:57:00.003-08:002023-01-04T17:28:51.028-08:00<div style="text-align: left;">my true friend the sky</div><div style="text-align: left;">gives cleansing love to the seeds</div><div style="text-align: left;">of freedom I planted today </div>Franci Levine-Graterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03494829741420100030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5522229854306975215.post-63057319211189421172022-12-22T10:48:00.003-08:002022-12-22T10:49:21.702-08:00<p><i>for Patti Smith</i></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">artist mother daily</div><div style="text-align: left;">hero, spinning soot and sugar</div><div style="text-align: left;">inspiring nourishment</div><div style="text-align: left;">among the beautiful weeds<i> </i> <br /></div>Franci Levine-Graterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03494829741420100030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5522229854306975215.post-20110915762782371022022-12-14T04:51:00.000-08:002022-12-14T04:51:14.823-08:00<div>our journey is our</div><div>destination. night’s shadows</div><div>cannot be caught. stars</div><div><br /></div><div>on the ceiling, on</div><div>the tips of my fingers, on</div><div>our eyelids, like coins.</div><div><br /></div><div>stars are our truest</div><div>currency - abundant and</div><div>reaching out to us </div><div><br /></div><div>from infinity.</div><div>put out the false light that hides </div><div>our birthright. reach back</div>Franci Levine-Graterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03494829741420100030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5522229854306975215.post-5755067414597625712016-11-09T07:56:00.004-08:002016-11-09T07:56:36.038-08:00November 9, 2016<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
this unreal morning<br />
the squirrels and the coffee<br />
don't know - all has changed</div>
Franci Levine-Graterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03494829741420100030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5522229854306975215.post-72152813561788178302016-11-01T00:04:00.000-07:002016-11-01T00:04:09.581-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
waiting for the process<br />
scan in progress completion --<br />
til now, no threats found<br />
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may it be so too<br />
tomorrow and all nights<br />
forward for us all </div>
Franci Levine-Graterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03494829741420100030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5522229854306975215.post-64554192376756224502016-09-28T11:45:00.000-07:002016-09-28T11:48:22.802-07:00Joe had to lose a trump to the Queen<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><i>a found poem</i></span><br />
<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>(Daily Bridge Column by Frank Stewart: 9/27/16) </i> </span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">You hold:</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Your partner opens one heart,</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">you respond one spade and he rebids two hearts.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">What do you say?</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The deal appears to be a misfit.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Your partner surely has a six-card heart.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">He has shown minimum opening values</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">and may have no tolerance for spades at all.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Pass.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">When you have no trump fit, stop bidding.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Both sides vulnerable.</span></div>
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Franci Levine-Graterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03494829741420100030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5522229854306975215.post-48658512924113440022016-09-21T20:03:00.000-07:002016-09-21T20:04:39.960-07:00Random Page of Poetry-a-Day #1<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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there is no reverse<br />for birds, only forward flight<br />in all types of sky</div>
Franci Levine-Graterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03494829741420100030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5522229854306975215.post-1664500347568857632016-06-30T13:53:00.001-07:002016-06-30T13:53:12.948-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
friends gather around the screen<br />
leaning in and giggling <br />
to keep a secret<br />
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amid pastel animal prints<br />
by children that double<br />
as advertisements<br />
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Franci Levine-Graterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03494829741420100030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5522229854306975215.post-89443451433238392592016-06-29T13:44:00.002-07:002016-06-30T13:50:55.881-07:00New Growth<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
fruit born<br />
from seeds long sown<br />
in this everchanging garden<br />
<br />
brings grace <br />
to our quaking leaves<br />
and hearts </div>
Franci Levine-Graterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03494829741420100030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5522229854306975215.post-48468455194516582682016-03-24T23:41:00.001-07:002016-03-24T23:41:16.870-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
start now to do what<br />
is right in your heart<br />
now right do start</div>
Franci Levine-Graterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03494829741420100030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5522229854306975215.post-33032778079437155162015-05-14T20:36:00.001-07:002015-05-14T20:37:40.596-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
your journey is not my journey<br />
though your struggles mirror mine.<br />
be strong and persistent to the end.</div>
Franci Levine-Graterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03494829741420100030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5522229854306975215.post-45900014188335647312015-05-07T23:56:00.003-07:002015-05-07T23:58:18.917-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
books are better<br />
than diamonds when rain<br />
falls at last</div>
Franci Levine-Graterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03494829741420100030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5522229854306975215.post-13143953062988207082015-05-03T00:36:00.003-07:002015-05-03T00:38:24.653-07:00kirtan kavannah<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
the entire earth<br />
generosity<br />
and not self<br />
<br />
breathe in foul<br />
hold and transform<br />
breathe out <i>ahava</i><br />
<i><br /></i>
oozing and coating<br />
the neighborhood city earth<br />
in sweetness<br />
<br />
peanut butter and jelly on rye<br />
holy holy holy<br />
surrounds and fills<br />
<br />
<br />
<br /></div>
Franci Levine-Graterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03494829741420100030noreply@blogger.com