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I think like people should totally believe in what they're saying, y'know?

Read it instead.

autumn colors deepen
Tuesday passed without event
but left a stump behind

winter sun wakes late
even the jet trails are pink
but it's eleven degrees

Since first frost last week, I've had the thought twirling around in my head wanting to be written. Probably needs work, but here we are anyway.

Hard FrostThe first arctic blast is startling ( Read more... )

So I'm reading a book of haiku today, and it's fairly enjoyable. I knew it would be since I've always liked them, but I just ran across this one.

a bitter rain--
two silences
beneath
one umbrella

Geoffrey Daniel

In a book of happy nature scenes, this one sort of jumped out at me. I like it. It stings a little.

May 24, 2008
8:12 PM

The sky is laden
with heavy purple clouds--
whales with rosy underbellies
a deep magentapink
only found in
little girls' clothing,
a Crayola 64 box,
and at sunset.

I've been reading through an anthology of Armenian-American poetry that John and I happened across in the maze of the Old Number Six Book Depot up the road. We bought it with the intention to give it to Sylva--our Armenian professor of literature--because the facing pages are in Armenian script. We all know Sylva's love of language, especially if ( Read more... )

So I'd really love someone to just tell me that I'm horrible at poetry so that I could give up on it, and it'd stop haunting me. I like writing it, but sometimes I feel like I'm just making things up and it's B.S even though what I write is true ( Read more... )

Red Sky At MorningThe sun and the sailors were still asleep when the red women came. They painted the sky scarlet before the first golden rays chased them away and onto the ships. The sailors were aroused by the sound--like a thousand singing sirens had risen out of the sea. And their voices were like the ocean itself. Rising, falling, breaking ( Read more... )

Based on Derek Mahon's "The Snow Party", and in reference to the 3 AM party.

"The Snow Party"Coco, living ( Read more... )