fellowship/publication submissions: 9 fellowship/publication acceptances: 1 fellowship/publication rejections: 4 books: The Art of the Poetic Line - James Longenbach The Four Agreements - Don Miguel Ruiz Secret Shame: Diana's Bananas--they look a little lewd (or maybe that's just my Freudian foolishness) but they taste so good! And my dingy truck--when did I become one of [...]
Tag: i was just thinking
The Girl That Won’t and the Girl That Will
Yesterday I stopped by my favorite gyro joint. The joint is in a fairly congested shopping district; yesterday's beautiful weather was cause for more than the usual congestion but I felt prepared, had put my claustrophobia in check long enough to score some late lunch. I was barely 2 steps out the door with my [...]
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The Beautiful Struggle
“The worst illiterate is the political illiterate, he doesn’t hear, doesn’t speak, nor participates in the political events. He doesn’t know the cost of life, the price of the bean, of the fish, of the flour, of the rent, of the shoes and of the medicine, all depends on political decisions. The political illiterate is [...]
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Bottom of the Hill
I'm standing at the bottom of the hill. I tell myself the obvious: this is about to hurt. I stretch; play Olympic Girl. But I'm a terrible actress. So my stretch looks more like stalling. Which is exactly what I'm doing. I launch and play my usual soundtrack in my head--"Lose Yourself" by Eminem. Soon--not [...]
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Conversations That Happen in My Head #4
Why thank you Strangers for revealing with your unwanted overtures that I am ovulating! As it turns out my sweaty armpits and the fresh pimple above my lip were hardly noticeable enough to warrant suspicion. So it's true: I'm prettiest when I'm ovulating. Really: Biology says so. And to think you will have nothing to [...]
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Almost There
I'm almost 38, so in that regard these words from Martin Luther King seem apropos. In these months before my 38th birthday there are some things that are going to happen that will be uncomfortable; things I'm anxious about because I recognize already how uncomfortable they will be. Shit with my employer and career; shit [...]
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Blue Moon
Y’all know I like full moons, new moons, moon pies (well not the moon pies so much) so in honor of Friday’s full moon this is about that kind of. And the fact that my water tastes like dishwater. Okay not that. But it does. Which is what I get for trying to wash the [...]
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Miscarriage
miscarriage if i don’t call tonight that’ll be the space to slump a little, give a little. like a lemonade lazy barefoot day, the perfect peace of 3 a.m., soft down of hair along your forearm, rumbling lull of tires against empty stretch of highway; hypnotize me that way. the tickle of a whisper against [...]
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My Symphony by William Ellery Channing
My Symphony William Ellery Channing To live content with small means. To seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion. To be worthy not respectable, and wealthy not rich. To study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly, to listen to stars, birds, babes, and sages with open heart, to bear all cheerfully, [...]
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Marrow (A Sort of Update)
56 poems into my manuscript and I'm back to Day One. On Day One, I was enrolled in the workshop where the project was born. A. Van Jordan, our instructor, had us select a historic event and try writing about it. Often, okay it is the case for me and I can only speak for [...]
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