On the way to Virginia Beach we drove past a trailer park named “Superior Manor,” and a field full of cotton ready to be picked. I took pictures of my feet up against the truck window because I liked the way they looked against the scenery rushing past at 70 miles an hour while Neil […]
1. My friend Alwyn has been known to care for feral cats. She named one Misery, a name whose melodic sound defies its actual meaning. 2. I have an imaginary small press called “The Nevertheless Press.” 3. I recently rushed to meet my girlfriends who were scheduled to pick me up at the bottom of […]
AKA: Why I can’t join a book club. Although I’ve never been a bookworm, I’ve read my share of books, many of which have acted as developmental and cultural milestones in my life. In elementary school I was the kind of kid who would clip the smallest newspaper story I could find for current events […]
My mind has fallen down a well like a shiny coin has dropped I sit in silence and make a wish waiting for it to hit the bottom
The following was published in the Floyd Press on September 20, 2007. The “beef naturally” sausage dished up by Larry Bright of Bright’s farm in Floyd was a hit. There was a line of people at the main tasting tent waiting to sample Paul Hooper’s pasta sauce. Jim Politis, of Riner’s Buffalo Store fame, provided […]
Hello my name is Colleen and I’m wearing a white wrist band with blue stars on it. It’s funny how a wristband can either mean that you probably had some fun last night or that you have recently been in the hospital. I got my first manicure on Friday. It was for a story I’m […]
1. The type that doesn’t wear seatbelts 2. Presumed innocent 3. Litter bug (aka shutter bug) 4. Justice 5. There’s one in every crowd Post notes: Photos — 1. Typewriter donated to the Hotel Floyd‘s Writer’s Room being transported. 2. Mug made by the Asheville Potter son. 3. Colleen putting eight month’s worth of pictures […]
1. I want to be a Blue Man when I grow up. 2. I want to write a poem with the words critic and citrus in the same line. 3. I still miss Seinfeld. 4. I spent an afternoon last week with a young man with developmental disabilities and an elder woman who is losing […]
Rusty brick Burgundy blush Ruby crimson Rosy carnation Scarlet delicious Blood beet wine Raspberry cherry Sunset flame Hot plum poppy Siren chili Cardinal petal Coral rouge Magenta sangria Valentine heart Lava ochre Pomegranate and garnet Post note: It’s Harvest Time.
Musing Woman recently mused on her five strengths as a writer and asked me to do the same. Although most of us aren’t very comfortable pointing out what we’re good at, it seems like a useful exercise to affirm five strengths rather than five deadly sins or weaknesses. Here’s what I came up with: 1. […]
In the end I’m like Rosa Parks … I don’t want to get up and go where I’m told … I work just as hard as any other poet … and I write from where I sit … Colleen Mara and I performed our dueling punctuation poems as promised at this month’s Spoken Word open […]
It’s not a serious collection. Not like my seashells, which are spread out all over the house, collecting dust in the corners of my attic, and stuffed into plastic bags in junk drawers next to thumb tacks, screwdrivers, calculators, and old keys. I don’t think of myself as a person with a collector’s personality. I […]
