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On, In, and Around: I'll Be There Wishing Good Things for You 10 Nov 2012 | 10:24 pm
I took my girl to this castle-ish place (above) when she was a baby. She does not remember it. Since then, fifteen years have passed. Six of those years (almost half her life), I have been a writer i...
WordCandy Wednesday: Behind the Poems 8 Nov 2012 | 04:26 am
The poems say maybe we've figured it. But if we reach through the words, we find the ache that made the pigment of sound. We find the white we know is asking us to admit silence. No words can say...
On, In, and Around Mondays: Her Biography 3 Nov 2012 | 09:25 pm
After the storm, walking. At 5:30 a.m., when the sky is silver and the moon is adrift in a swath of clouds. Or, having had my caramel apple tea, walking in the still-fast-moving air, seeing the sun ...
WordCandy Wednesday: The Particular Wheel 31 Oct 2012 | 04:00 pm
Photo by Sonia Joie. I'm enjoying using these wordcandies as poetry prompts. Good language invites more language, yes? A poem then... It may take months to find the way the wheel speaks itself in ...
On, In, and Around Mondays: You Want the One-Star 27 Oct 2012 | 06:54 pm
"You're going to want the five-stars and the one-stars," I told her. It is Karen's first book—a poignant and humorous memoir, Booked: Literature in the Soul of Me. Karen has been an award-winning pr...
WordCandy Wednesday: Metaphysics Laced 24 Oct 2012 | 07:10 pm
Photo by L.L. Barkat. This candy is from the On Poets & Poetry category. Perhaps a poem, then... Metaphysics laced with poppies makes me wonder how I can be more or less red with black seeds. Wa...
On, In, and Around Mondays: Walk in the Woods 22 Oct 2012 | 09:20 pm
We stepped onto the pine needles, in a slice of woods barely qualifying to be called woods. "It's like a carpet," my girl said. "Yes, I used to walk such woods. My sister and I. How we loved the pin...
WordCandy Wednesday: The Soul 17 Oct 2012 | 05:00 pm
Photo by Kelly Sauer. This candy, from the Sweet Dreams category, is so lovely. It begs for a poem, don't you think? The soul bends down to wait. The soul like fragile lace lays itself across the w...
On, In, and Around Mondays: Writing Landscapes 15 Oct 2012 | 04:55 pm
He walks the old ways and pays a toll in skin. The paths are chalk, and his body writes itself onto the landscape, even as the landscape writes itself onto his body. MacFarlane has taken a fall along...
WordCandy Wednesday: 10 Oct 2012 | 05:00 pm
Photo by Claire Burge. I am loving the new Tea category at WordCandy. This one is great wisdom from Winnie the Pooh. How do you make your tea proper? Want to make Wednesday simple and sweet? Blog Wo...
