1. My new line as of late is: “I’ll bring the cucumbers!” They grow overnight. 2. Working on three stories at once (like I have been this past week) is like juggling apples, oranges, pears. 3. And I’m not working with a full deck. Seeing as how most everyone else gets 52 cards of energy […]
1. Summer Snowball 2. Flower Shower 3. A Flurry of Flutter 4. A Butterfly bar serving nectar on tap
~ The following was published in The Floyd Press on July 10, 2008 and on their online site HERE. When Rose Cherrix and her son Abraham first participated in the Spoken Word Open Mic at Floyd’s Café Del Sol, they received a rousing round of applause when Rose told the crowd that Abraham recently had […]
1. Powered by the Sun 2. Baby’s Moon Roof 3. Flights of Fancy 4. Fleeting Youth Post Note: The above photos were taken last Wednesday when my grandson Bryce’s sister Kaylee and I babysat for him while his mother went to a class.
Mara’s introduction for Hollins University writing teacher Thorpe Moeckel at the Café Del Sol was so well crafted and delivered that Thorpe thought maybe he shouldn’t read any poetry, after all. Her words were a hard act to follow. But follow them he did, taking us listeners on a ride through Alaska, Maine, and North […]
1. On the Fourth of July, I made a red, white, and blue dessert for my house guest: strawberries, blueberries, and whipped cream! 2. I actually had two house guests over the weekend, one who wore American flag boxers, and the other wore Red Sox ones. 3. I found myself being thankful that it doesn’t […]
1. A Tolkien Tree 2. A Martian Landing This is the part where spooky music is played and you wonder what happened next.
The thrift shop is my casino I keep going back to. Sometimes I buy clothes I don’t really need, or ones that end up not working out. But at $3 a pop I can afford the bet, whether I win or lose. The payoff is silk, linen, rayon, cotton, and merino wool in my favorite […]
I want a poem I can live happily ever after with even if we fight I want a compatible poem with a surprising contradiction and a line that holds open a door I want a poem that will talk to me but one that won’t say what it thinks I want to hear I want […]
1. Keep your eye on the road 2. Keep your eye on the ball 3. Keep your eye on the camera 4. Keep your eye on the sky And don’t forget to stop and smell the wildflowers. Photos: 1. Hay is being cut all over Floyd County. I got behind a load of it on […]
AKA: M&M&M Little did my friends, Maria, Miriam, and Mara, know they were posing for a stars and stripes 4th of July photo when they struck this celebratory pose after dancing to Laura Reed and Deep Pocket last Friday night. Happy Fourth of July! ********** ////////////// ********* //////////********* //////////******* //////////******* //////////******* ////////
1. You know when you forget someone’s name and no matter how hard you try, even if it’s on the tip of your tongue, you can’t remember. Then you go off and do something else and the name just pops in your head? Writing poetry is like that. 2. At Johanna and Nick’s wedding, my […]
