Inspired by the poem, The Gift, by Li-Young Lee To pull the metal splinter from my palm my father recited a story in a low voice. I watched his lovely face and not the blade. Before the story ended, he’d removed the iron sliver I thought I’d die from. Staying By River To stand andContinue reading “Staying”
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2020 Was Hilarious
(This is a collaboration with a writing partner. To read more of her work follow the tag “Guest Author”) Winter just started. It’s dark at 4:30 pm It’s dark at 6 a.m. Then a moment of pink. What if you find the cartoon in all this 2020 ness? Mess? Stress? Fess? Consider: There’s your friend, aContinue reading “2020 Was Hilarious”
Approaching An Approach
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”