Tag: poetry
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Mail, Glorious Mail!
Funny how a crisis robs you of time. Now it’s Saturday, and I’ve not written another poem, and I am far far behind. My personal goal is 15 poems for the month, so I have time. I shan’t give up! I have to leave for work shortly, but O the Glory of the Mail! There…
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NaPoWriMo Draft 12.
Last night I went to hear Gabriel Fried read at Amherst College. I really like his book, Making the New Lamb Take (Sarabande Books, 2007), so I was excited to go, though exceptionally tired. I’m glad I exerted the effort. He’s very sweet, and his reading style conversational. And he has the most amazing head…
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NaPoWriMo Draft 11.
Revisions were indeed the focus this weekend. My output hasn’t been as great as many of the folks participating in NaPoWriMo, but I’m happy to say that I’m pretty pleased with everything I’ve written. Hubris maybe, or just infatuation with my new loves, but right now, yeah. Until today. I guess this is more of…
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Chalk it up!
To fill a Gap Insert the Thing that caused it — Block it up With Other — and ‘twill yawn the more — You cannot solder an Abyss With Air. — Emily Dickinson Get your sidewalk chalk and pick your poem and get to it. You only have until April 30 to get your free…
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Grilled Cheese with Bacon & Tomato kind of Night.
No poem today. Not even a revision. Back to work where my inbox was filled with nearly 600 emails and my tangible box was just full. But what a glorious day! 80 degrees! On April 18! This evening Vincent & Lance went for a walk downtown while I started making the season’s first batch of…
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NaPoWriMo Draft 9.
Vincent could be & has been worse, but darling boy is still unwell. In between the interludes of obvious illness, he is variously rambunctious and lethargic. Irony of ironies: Nature has chosen this Week of the Influenza Outbreak to spring into Full Spring with gusto. * The moving-on-now-revise-later aspect of NaPoWriMo does not come naturally…
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In which the plague inevitably spreads & Marie somehow writes NaPoWriMo Draft 8.
Thank you, yes, I am improving at last, but horribly, Vincent has caught it. From me. Which means I didn’t get it from him, and I’m a bad mama to have intimated that I might have done so in my last post. I am happy to report, however, that so far, though he’s plenty sick,…
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Days of Gatorade & Crackers.
These are the days of Gatorade and crackers. These are the days of Peptobismol. These are most definitely the days of “Please let me make it to the bathroom in time!” I have been felled by the flu. Can I just say that before I birthed a child, I can’t remember ever having once been…
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Andrea Cohen & Memorious
I’m now 4 poems behind — haven’t managed to write another poem since finishing the Pleiades poems — but I’m trying not to get too worked up about it. I’ve really enjoyed being so poetry-centric, and I’m happy with what I have written, but I have to say, between a full-time job, Vincent, poetry readings,…
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NaPoWriMo Draft 7.
If my last draft seemed a bit hostile, well, that was more or less where I was last night. Tonight, the beast sleeps, I’m bleary-eyed, but I did complete my Spring Pleiades series. After this, I’ll have to find something else to keep the words flowing. Maybe a few good hours of sleep will help.…
Marie Gauthier 