Yesterday I wrapped gifts and hit Play over and over on a youtube recording of my niece’s choral group singing a capella. I clapped for a six year old friend who had been instructed by his piano teacher to play Jingle Bells (for someone besides his parents) in preparation for his recital today. I read … Continue reading Poem of the Week, by Suzanne Cleary
We’re born with backups, twinned in so many ways: two hands, two ears, two eyes, two kidneys. Lose one and the other steps right up and does the job of both. But not with the heart. We each have only one of them. Echocardiogram – Suzanne Cleary How does, how does, how does it work … Continue reading Poem of the Week, by Suzanne Cleary
Anyways – Suzanne Cleary (for David) Anyone born anywhere near my home town says it this way, with an s on the end: “The lake is cold but I swim in it anyways,” “Kielbasa gives me heartburn but I eat it anyways,” “(She/he) treats me bad, but I love (her/him) anyways.” Even after we have … Continue reading Poem of the Week, by Suzanne Cleary
Pascal’s Wager – Suzanne Cleary Pascal’s Wager is the kind of thing you would discuss with a beer in your hand, but then there was always a beer in one of your hands, or passing from one to the other, that summer we talked on your porch, those rainy upstate nights, hot pavement steaming as … Continue reading Poem of the Week, by Suzanne Cleary
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Waking Up to Your Dreams
On James Baldwin and Diverse Literature
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your own PDK for writing
a collection of beautiful words.....
Objects, Memory and Meaning
If it can't be said in a hundred words, then it can't be said in a thousand.
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"drink from the well of your self and begin again" ~charles bukowski
Musings on poetry, language, perception, numbers, food, and anything else that slips through the cracks.
Thoughts on the world around me
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