Fiona Robyn nicely posted one of my short prose poems on her site, A Handful of Stones. Here’s some Coffee Grounds.
Drink up!
Posts from ‘September, 2008’
A stone
So we are not exactly The Atlantic Monthly, but I need a word…
…for those awful dried out erasers than make a nasty smudge rather than cleanly erasing pencil marks.
I know. I am an artist, too. Though you don’t know it, most of you. And a drafter – although these days my drawing is all pretty much in AutoCad. My very favorite eraser for everyday use is my [...]
Yet another good idea: send it forward
PBS is doing a poll asking of Palin is qualified to be the VP. The right wing has organized a ‘yes’ campaign, and the ‘yes’s at the moment are at an amazing 50%. Please take one quick minute to do this poll…http://www.pbs.org/now/polls/poll-435.html and then send it on to everyone you know.
A mash-up: I Will Wake Up
I wake up, I will
sway in wind gusts, will stand
forever. My head like underwater
thoughts, my hand swats
caresses, skin, but nobody speaks.
Bubbles that move like small
balloons shine in a salt-blue sky,
pools with silent intention.
The paper’s surface succumbs.
I dream cruel fall steals this
half-moment, triggers low
moaning. How many ways can my
body go wrong? A fully dressed woman.
I imagine [...]
Implicit Beliefs
I’ve been a bit remiss lately in writing poetry (and I haven’t forgotten the CoSto!). Jon has been here for the last 2 1/2 weeks, and we’ve taken good advantage of our time together- taking day trips around the region several times a week, and painting rooms and unpacking boxes. He goes back tomorrow [...]
I hate Zombies
Some of you might remember that I have an irrational fear of zombies. Just yesterday, Jon and I were musing about whether it would be better to be chased by a zombie, mummy, or skeleton. I picked skeletons (because they don’t run after you with their hands outstretched)- he picked mummys. Zombies, it [...]
An act of remembrance
Christine gave the RWP community a prompt about elegies and remembrances a couple of weeks ago.
I wasn’t going to share anything beyond an American Sentence for 9/11, for elegies. But there was a synergistic moment. A very good friend’s mother died earlier this summer. Her memorial was the first week of September. That same friend’s [...]
Yet another good idea I wish I had thought of: read on
Donate to Planned Parenthood in Honor of Sarah Palin
Since Palin gave her speech accepting the Republican nomination for the Vice Presidency, Barack Obama’s campaign has raised over $10 million dollars.
Here’s a fiendishly brilliant alternative: Make a donation to Planned Parenthood in Sarah Palin’s name. And here’s the good part: when you make a donation to [...]
Outing a reading, poetry in Portland
Our blog and real-life friend Dale has a poetry reading tomorrow night. I am hoping to sneak into the front row with a recorder and send the audio to Dave, somehow, who will transform it into something more can hear.
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Barnes & Noble Reading Series is delighted to present poets Dale Favier, Dan Raphael, [...]
A cento from my collaborators at ThePoCo
Loosely Woven Ties
(Lines were borrowed from slynn, Nathan, Dana, Jo, Carolee, Christine and Jill. I took a few, very few, liberties and added a bridge word or two, played with tenses and altered a few pronouns, although in whole the lines are remarkably unchanged. For the original poetry-offerings go here. And while there bink on [...]
