Loose Leaf Notes

1. I’m working on my third poetry memoir collection in a series, Poems from the Dark Room, with the theme:  It takes time in the dark room to bring lived-experience into focus and to develop the meaning we’ve made of our lives.

2. I just read this line from one of the poems in the collection:  ‘You leave your will and testament / with every written poem / You read newspaper obituaries / as if looking for your next homeroom,’ and I thought how I like the idea of lawyers reading the collection as a poet’s last will and testament.

3. People think dropping r’s is what the Boston accent is all about, but it’s also about adding w’s where there aren’t any, like in THIS video where my Boston accent sneaks out when I say the word God.

4. As a writer, I sometimes feel guilty about all the printer paper I use.

5. I took over Joe’s porch workspace while he was away at a training…

6. I was thinking of the telephone song from the musical Bye Bye Birdie when I named this week’s TT title, but discovered there is also THIS.

7. Posing with boulders…. HERE.

8. Can I post this dirty picture on Facebook?

9. Will we all be picked off / one by one? / Will there be a light? / Will there be blood? / Will we have a caring / hand to hold? / Will we fade / like words on paper / or fall like dominos?  Read This is Not a Horror Movie in its entirety HERE. 

10. The sky is a blue canvas / for the tallest sunflowers / A hummingbird whirs / in search of bright colors / Leaves glide from trees like swallowtails surfing / Bird calls grow faint and unconvincing – Read Summer Exhale in its entirety HERE.

11. Xo was my first emoji.

12. “Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.” -Margaret Mead

13. What’s the tale, nightingale?

_______Thirteen Thursday