Thursday, September 19, 2013

Muse: An Elusive Dream

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Muse: An Elusive Dream by Armando Ortiz From the stage where she performs she hears a sea of voices, I am just another set of eyes, but she ...
Thursday, August 29, 2013

Bus Stop: Sketches of Los Angeles

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Bus Stop by Armando Ortiz It was a foggy morning, and the mocking birds were singing. Yolanda could hear their coos and tweets a few minutes...
Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Growing up in Los Angeles (Part Sixteen): Hoover Elementary School - Fourth Grade Reflections

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Part 16: Hoover Elementary School: Fourth Grade Reflections By Armando Ortiz The events detailed here will sound somewhat fantastic and unre...
Monday, July 15, 2013

Bosnian Rainbows: A Los Angeles Experience

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Bosnian Rainbows: Blasts from the Past and Scaffolds of the Future, A Los Angeles Experience by Armando Ortiz “ Perhaps when you watc...
Tuesday, July 9, 2013

Joshua Memorial Park: Poem

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Joshua Memorial Park by Armando Ortiz In September, the high desert is an oven, with plastic flowers and visitors, that can’t silence the la...
Saturday, June 29, 2013

Growing up in Los Angeles (Part Fifteen): D.A.R.E. to Save Each Other - Drugs and Youth in L.A.

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Part 15: D.A.R.E. to Save Each Other: Drugs and Youth in L.A. By Armando Ortiz About three of us almost broke down that day. It might have b...
Monday, June 17, 2013

That Same River: Poem/Sonnet

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That same river by Armando Ortiz By the river we shed tears Reliving age old battles As the fallen floated by like withered flowers On t...
Wednesday, June 5, 2013

The Intercept of Land and Ocean: A Sonnet

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The Intercept of Land and Ocean by Armando Ortiz Look at the ocean, close your eyes, and see the sounds of midnight; Waves crash and come...
Wednesday, May 22, 2013

The Scent of Orange

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The Scent of Orange by Armando Ortiz Today I remembered those white hands, as I cut these oranges in half. The scent felt like touching...
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Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Turquoise and Coral

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Turquoise and Coral by Armando Ortiz Coming into your focus is my hope, To exist in your memories the goal Allow me to enter your world and...
Friday, May 10, 2013

Dreaming of Life: An Essay on Edgar Alan Poe, Walt Whitman and Zhuang Zi

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Dreaming of Life: Poe, Whitman, and ZhuangZi By Armando Ortiz As I searched for some topic materials for a student I was tutoring, the idea...
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