here and there one more day, showing up to the page.
here and there one more day, showing up to the page.
Stay on target. It is okay to just stare at the paper, right? asking for a friend.
A kind of beginning… In the beginning no one knows it’s the beginning. It’s hard to know when to really begin the story, so just start somewhere and then write the prequel.
Or there is Tuesday ,,,, Just keep going. It just occurred to me that part of the benefit of morning pages (from Julia Cameron’s book, “The Artist’s Way”), is the discipline of concentrating for 30 min at a time while writing the morning pages. Maybe that is obvious to everyone else, or maybe I am …
There is something about Monday. The lists, the hope, the ambition, the anticipation, and then everything is closed, or actually just a few things, and all that junk food left from the holidays, the wine bottle that you couldn’t open because the cork broke, and you are just tired for some reason. Everyone needs a …
I know. A little late, but it is fine. The buildup to this year has been intense, but here we are. Everyone keeps saying, “it has to get better,” but does it?
This poem is not about you This poem is about running on the beach Splashing in the surf, and kicking up sand The wind is blowing and it is just about to rain Laughing and breathing harder then it ever thought it could This poem is not about you This poem is about smiling for …
You thought you were funny, but you weren’t
The apology was left in messages as unsent draftI just wanted to say hiThinking of you, but then apon remembering everything that went wrong, and everything that could never have gone rightAll the reasons everything went wrongMaybe it’s just better unsaidEspecially since nothing has changed for the better, and you are probably living happily ever …
It’s too late for my poor husbands, but let me spare you some of their grief, because in their search for that elusive metaphor, poets can be somewhat “eccentric.” If you date a poet, everyone will think you are the person they are writing about. You will be the person they are writing about. (unless …
The rising tide 