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Poetics of Secrecy
Posted in #MeToo, Poetry, Women on November 17, 2018 | Leave a Comment »
Ode to the Ode
Posted in Dance, Music, Poetry on October 2, 2018 | Leave a Comment »
Ever let the Fancy roam, Pleasure never is at home: At a touch sweet Pleasure melteth, Like to bubbles when rain pelteth; Then let winged Fancy wander Through the thought still spread beyond her: Open wide the mind’s cage-door, She’ll dart forth, and cloudward soar. – From John Keats, Fancy, 1820
The Felling of the Bard of Weeds
Posted in Natural World, Poetry, Protest on June 25, 2018 | 1 Comment »
What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and of wildness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet; Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet. -Gerard Manley Hopkins, Inversnaid (1881)
Recurrence
Posted in Dreams, Love, Poetry on January 22, 2018 | Leave a Comment »
My mother dreams of walking the mausoleum’s corridor searching for her name among the eye-level inscription plates petite crypts holding entombed breasts. It’s been more than 30 years since the era of battling early stage breast cancer with radical mastectomy – without reconstruction. Still she dreams of being reunited, made whole.
Making Way for the Poem
Posted in Anger, Poetry, Protest, Women, Writing on January 14, 2018 | 1 Comment »
I’ve been waiting for anger to subside or at least squidgy a little to the left or, if not that, slide a bit lower or melt, maybe, from my furrowed brow and clenched jaw or warm the nippy fluids buffering my heart by just half a degree or soften just the tiniest bit the hardened […]