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Category Archives: reading
The Shirt
The shirt touches his neck and smooths over his back. It slides down his sides. It even goes down below his belt— down into his pants. Lucky shirt. ~Jane Kenyon Collected Poems
Lines Lost Among Trees
These are not the lines that came to me while walking in the woods with no pen and nothing to write on anyway. They are gone forever, a handful of coins dropped through the grate of memory, along with the … Continue reading
This Is Just to Say
I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox and which you were probably saving for breakfast Forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so cold ~ William Carlos Williams Selected Poems
Poem in Your Pocket Day 2013
Yesterday, April 18, was Poem in Your Pocket Day. Which I’d never heard of until this year. I came across it while looking up National Poetry Month, which April is. Are you writing your poem a day? Obligatory Longfellow jokes … Continue reading
reading into it
“There is creative reading as well as creative writing.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson I’ve had a couple neat experiences lately as I’ve been putting my writing out into the world. They’ve been good reminders of what a dynamic process reading is, … Continue reading
A Valley Like This
Sometimes you look at an empty valley like this, and suddenly the air is filled with snow. That is the way the whole world happened – there was nothing, and then. . . But maybe some time you will look … Continue reading
I Got Kin
Plant So that your own heart Will grow. Love So God will think, “Ahhhhhh, I got kin in that body! I should start inviting that soul over For coffee and Rolls.” Sing Because this is a food Our starving world … Continue reading
Before Sleep
1. Before sleep Baba arranges extra blankets on her feet. “The weight,” she explains “will keep me from flying.” Walnut trees hold still in the garden. 2. Baba sleeps, her cheek pressed to the pillow, her hair flowing. … Continue reading
ODE TO MY SOCKS
Maru Mori brought me a pair of socks which she knitted herself with her sheep-herder’s hands, two socks as soft as rabbits. I slipped my feet into them as thought into two cases knitted with threads of twilight and goatskin. … Continue reading
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