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Tag Archives: poetry
Out of the Frying Pan, Into the Fire
Coming from the US to France: out of the frying pan, into the fire. Heat wave –canicule, in French – refers to dog days, which even Homer wrote about in The Iliad: Sirius rises late in the dark, liquid skyOn summer … Continue reading
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Tagged endure, France, l, l'été, les vacances, poetry, Provencal, Provence, South of France
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Weather Is Us
The weather has a nakedness that resembles ours. It spits, it blows croons blusters and mourns. It is impetuous and adolescent, taking pleasure in small revolts and impunities. It also brings happiness, but this is not the norm. We’re tempted to … Continue reading
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Tagged chaos, chaos theory, Flowers of CHaos, physics, physics of weather, poetry, spontaneous order, weather systems
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Anguish is like Laundry
My anguish can be washed in warm water, with a mild soap, when it’s soaked then rolled in an old towel lay it out in the dappled sun, beside lilies of the valley where it can hear the tinkling of … Continue reading
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Tagged cleansing, Depression, despair, hope, poetry, prose poem, spring flowers, vowels
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Savage Truths of 7am
I am not being dishonest when I say I don’t like waking up at 6am. It makes me negative. I hear stories of high-achieving friends waking at sunbreak to write, to lift weights at the gym …different species. It’s only the leaking … Continue reading
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Tagged anxiety, Dreams, early-morning dreams, hypersensitivity, inner consciousness, insomnia, migraine, poetry, prose poems, Trauma
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Diaspora of Affections
Since nothing is ever complete, the poetry book I wrote about my mother, Diaspora of Things, seems like a light-sensitive print of where I was a few years ago. The relationship keeps evolving. The deeper I get into motherhood – all these years … Continue reading
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Tagged aging, chapbook, Diaspora of Things, family relationship, mother-daughter, Mother's Day, mothering, poetry
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UltraViolet Night
I awaken to pee, pass the windowin its wide-eyed state: too bright.Could be a spotlight that beams new films, except this skytracker doesn’t rove. The light is steady, ultraviolet. The dead tree, tumbling shrubs, picket fence – all caught in the trembleof their … Continue reading
Bowl of Mysteries
The house was warm, but down the road,everything steel-gray – the vast curve of the bay, clouds thin and skinned, each streak a pale sister of the other. The shades have no names, so delicate, merged, chilled. Darkly brooding, wading into my poor mind. I’d … Continue reading
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Tagged bleached winter, color theor, Color Theory, Edgewood, monotone, Narragansett Bay, poetry, Rhode Island, winter, winter beach
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Thanksgiving Dreamed My Poem
The poem I’m wrestling with wrestled with me all week.My dreamlife gave me these ideas: That pungent vinaigrette in the little dish:pour the rest over the poem. It will taste delicious. Push that boulder which is also a wordover the poem’s … Continue reading
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Tagged dreamwork, poems, poetry, synesthesia, Unconscious, writer's block
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On Seeing Kara Walker in Mary Janes
I was curious about the guard when she came over.There was a gap between her teeth, coffee-skinned, in museum guard clothes. Around us the monstrosities of race, freestanding caricatures of the enslaved with robotic nerves – a man strives after a severed limb; … Continue reading
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Tagged art, museums, poetry, random encounters, SFMoMA, traveling
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