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At last, I’ve summoned the bravery to share my June poems. If anyone was waiting (which seems doubtful), thank you for your patience. This project––writing a poem every day for the month of June––challenged me in many ways. As I describe in my previous post, poetry demands a far larger creative budget than I amContinue reading “Playing with Poetry”

I’ve been working on a poetry project this June, in which I write a poem every day. I thought the switch from daily journaling to daily poetry would be a seamless one. I was wrong. Writing has always been a painstaking process for me. I handle words like they’re expensive, and I’m on a strictContinue reading “Through the Clouds”

[Texting with a very good old friend] You: i miss you. how was your day? Me: not too bad, although I think sunday is my least favorite day of the week You: why is that? At the start of the weekend, I watched two ancient white men yell at each other in front of America.Continue reading “Running for President”