Thanks to a long-overdue quiet day, followed by a couple of snow days (including today—the parking lot by my building is still too icy to get my car out to go anywhere), I have returned to working on my next collection of poems. What I have done so far: Continue reading
There have been more changes this year than I was expecting. I’m not quite ready to summarize the year just yet, but suffice it to say that the changes now extend to one of my collections in progress, Straining Against the Margins. Continue reading
This bit of mysteriousness emerged from somewhere…
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Contemplating things that have and have not changed…
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I spent yesterday watching Japanese movies checked out from the library. This poem was inspired by クローンは故郷をめざす (The Clone Returns Home)…
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‘The other day, I was in a record shop. Looking through the LPs, I found the Queen catalog reissues. On one of them, the Virgin Records logo was in the upper right corner. But, on closer inspection, the famous logo that was supposedly scrawled on a napkin had been ‘cleaned up’: the basic shape was there; the letterforms were close, but all wrong…
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I have given myself a luxurious several (as in six or seven) weeks (so far) to work on the print edition of Refusal to Remain Invisible. In that time, I have removed some poems, added others, and moved a couple of others around. With my third round of printed proofs, I determined to make no more changes. Continue reading
Watching House again…
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Thinking about how things have changed these last couple of years or so…
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I hope I haven’t edited the life out of this one. It started out quite rough.
Ordinary Average Thoughts 