1. Fiddling around Memorial Day weekend in Floyd. 2. Plum is yum / and cherry is cheery / But what part of berry is raspy? / Bananas can be split / or cause you to slip / Apples remind me of fall / I figure a fig is easier to figure / than three meanings […]
1. THIS is the poem I read when listeners need a break from my poems from the darkroom that are emotional. 2. These are some of the poems that might need that antidote. 3. This is a tattoo I saw at the Little River Poetry Festival. 4. At one point during my poetry reading, I […]
1. Here’s a cool way to spell my sisters who are coming to visit this month: Trisherry. 2. The hoppier the beer, the happier I am. 3. I’m a poem that knows / what it doesn’t know / that doesn’t claim / to be your favorite / I’m the girl next door / who you […]
1. Where are your old blue jeans? HERE. 2. Slapstick moon: I slipped on the moon’s crescent peel and dreamt of whipped moon pie revenge. 3. Joe got me an ancestry kit for my birthday. When I opened it, I said, “Let’s find out if we’re Irish cousins.” 4. When Loose Leaf Notes doesn’t have […]
1. Word is that it briefly snowed in part of the county last Wednesday. Today it could hit 80. 2. This Rose Breasted Grosbeak is the Ruth Bader Ginsberg of birds because its initials are RBG. 3. I ran into my one-time firewood guy last weekend at Dogtown and was pretty sure it was his […]
1. Who’s is it? 2. “Poem” comes from the Greek poíēma, meaning a “thing made,” and a poet is defined in ancient terms as “a maker of things.” So if a poem is a thing made, what kind of thing is it? – From What is a Poem, The Atlantic 3. The weight of a […]
1. I’m not a leader, but I’m not a follower either. I’m a party of one. 2. While on our Floyd Family Soft Open Take-over of The Old Marshall Jail Hotel in NC (which is going to be a hard act to follow), my friend Jody told me that she dreamt I was speaking emotionally […]
1. “I know I’m going to get ratioed for this but I miss the two spaces after a period.” – Seen on Twitter 2. ‘Ratioed’ means that a tweet or post gets more replies than likes. It suggests that the tweet has lit a fire among Twitter users, with people clamouring to join the debate […]
1. I don’t do emojis because they’re too small for me to see, because I can’t find them on my phone and if I do find them I don’t know how I did and don’t know how to make them go away. 2. I’ve been looking at plant images for hours like a cop looking […]
1. Sometimes bluebells are pink. See HERE. 2. Death is at least as big a magic trick as being born in the first place is! 3. I guarantee THIS will make you LOL. 4. THIS is a great songbird identification resource. Click on the bird and hear its song. 5. “Nearly everybody gets twitterpated (lovestruck) […]
1. Every day is a live cold open. You’re on the air. 2. I’ve never been able to balance my check book. I just keep extra money in my account so my checks won’t bounce. 3. During my flower child days, it was hip to say ‘let’s bounce” when we were leaving a place. Sometimes […]
1. Lately, I’ve been flipped out, meaning vertigo is back. 2. I’m Always Up for Music Road Company @Dogtown, and by “UP” I Mean Dancing. See HERE. 3. This is the time of year when I rake out flower gardens and have the inflated sense of confidence that I won’t lose control of the weeds. […]
