Elbowesque response: Pretend that the author of this passage has a conversation with another author, one preferably from another century. Write about what their meeting might reveal. Suppose we take Joseph Harris back to Paris around 1910 where T.S. Eliot was rewriting his Prufrock poem in his journal at the Lilas café’. Ezra PoundContinue reading “Approaching An Approach”
Author Archives: River Brown
Meditation on an Airplane
I watch distant blue hills, mountains that check off into the clouds or the water. I am afraid of getting old. I am afraid of forgetting what time it is what gate to depart what I’m doing here. I try to look as intelligent as possible perky, alert but I am afraid of the dark pathsContinue reading “Meditation on an Airplane”
Awake
I heard somebody say, that the world has turned upside down. I thought, “No, the world is flipping back right-side up.” Which hope for I cannot clearly say But I feel it in the people in the streets, thousands marching voices raised, signs flashing on every TV… This sounds better than the way the worldContinue reading “Awake”