August 2009
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MyPoWriMo #4: Untitled: for the man folding into...
This was not easy. I used two lines from the amazing Ishle Yi Park (http://www.ishle.com). She is my heart and one of the most incredible writers, poets, human beings I’ve ever had the pleasure to know. Please, if you don’t know, get familiar.The poem was sort of languishing in my head and I had to let go of the length and just get something down. I also used a photo I stumbled upon...
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Nobody's Coming To Get Us: Liquid
I read an article about a man who refuses to leave New Orleans without his wife’s body. He’s accepted that she’s dead but won’t leave until he finds her. This was written in the voice of his wife pleading with him to go but letting him know that she’s still with him. Part of the Katrina series and inspired by hundreds of spouses searching for their loved ones after...
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Katrina, Kennedy, King of Pop (word to...
I’m not sure if I have more than a haiku or two in me for MyPoWriMo. I’m feeling too heavy for too many reasons this morning and I’m tired of writing the same things to no end. I won’t stop it if it starts but I won’t push it if it’s not there.
A few years ago, I was packing to leave Brooklyn for the first time. On my way to surgery in DC. In the mist of the...
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MyPoWriMo #3: When You are missing someone's soul
This is less a poem, more a brain dumping. Woke up and it happened. The first line “You are missing someone’s soul” is a paraphrase of Mara Jebsen’s Facebook status from yesterday that read “Strangely missing someone in Seoul. Dreams spilling over into the whole morning.” I don’t know anyone in Seoul but when I first read it, I misread it as...
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MyPoWriMo #2: When Apologies Fall Apart
So this is what I feared. The reason why I doubt my writing is because when I’m going through something, I can’t write about anything but that. I feel like a writer worth her salt should write about anything at any time not just translate things that are happening at the moment. I’m trying to avoid days and days and pages of pages of the same but I think I’m at my best...
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MyPoWriMo #1: If I had Known
I’m taking a break from all this social media to clear my head and see if this writing will come flooding back in tall enough waves to encourage pages and pages. The discipline is rusty. So I’ve decided to challenge myself. Take a line from someone else’s poem or writing and then take 15 minutes and build something from it. This is like my personal NaPoWriMo so don’t expect...
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Work In Progress: The Heart Attempts To Clear Its...
let me remind you why i was placed here not to ache or welcome hurt and break you have accepted this too easily clear my name i’m here to move blood to pump and pulse and remind you living you are living i’m doing my job despite the thing that curdles there is still oxygen available i will not own this will not let you say it hurts there is no shame in this say you...
