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Monthly Archives: January 2013
The Twitter Challenge
You will not find me tweating about daily events. You won’t know when I’m having coffee or what I’ve been doing in my spare time. On first discovering Twitter, I came across poets creating tiny wonders in 140 characters. Intrigued … Continue reading
Au Naturale
Increasingly insistent, drawing in at the midpoint Followed by fiery flashfloods to the brain–oceanic bliss disturbed A new knowing- mouth becoming wet, the midpoint tightens and again Flashfloods. Full force. Skin brushes against skin … Continue reading
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U-Turns-Birth
from Parent to Grandparent I have a reputation in the family for getting lost while driving even when I know where I’m going. U-turns are a fact of driving life with me. I really think that life changes are u-turns. … Continue reading
This is Just to Say
that today I struggled with blog confusion. I posted. I un-posted. I re-posted. Copied and pasted. Categories clouded my brain. Tags twirled like leaves in a storm endlessly landed in useless piles. I’m sorry if I made you confused too … Continue reading
Episode I-Ants on the Blacktop Weeds on the Hill
Nature as Teacher Student as Observer (This is only the first segment of this article. It will follow in stages as the article presents several different lessons used for gathering writing ideas outside.) Imagine thirty … Continue reading
Episode II-Ants on the Blacktop Weeds on the Will
Another first day lesson- John Moffitt’s “To Look at Any Thing” is the first session poem I’ve used for the longest time. After we find each image, we talk about the lines, “you must/ Be the thing you see.” The … Continue reading
Another piece of suspenseful ants
This is no longer holiday suspense. Christmas and New Years have both gone. What passes for normal is now here. Except Christmas refuses to leave the house just yet. The nerve of that tree just sitting there refusing to leave, … Continue reading
At the Turning of the Year
At this turning of the year, I find myself thinking about life changes. What does this have to do with poetry? I find that when my life halts, does an about face and stutters off again I tend to write … Continue reading
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