Category: River Slices

• Intro: Peter Elbow’s Surreal Vision of Social Reality

  We are underwater. Blub, blub. Did you say something? Static Communication. Blah, blah, blah, blah…Huh? Until: More personal, imaginative creative writing… People find themselves in a group where their words are heard. Pg. 23 “they want to say things that are complex and difficult to express which they had previously learned to ignore as it…

  River Brown

  2023

  River, Writing

  Social issues

• Season

  While dark overtakes the daylight hours, summer asserts final bouts of heat, but night’s chill verifies it’s fall. Fall, as to lower, to go back, failing light.Like the trailing vines that ring the garden drying back their brittle leaves, wisely, the squashes remain; I relinquish energetic labor, slow the weeding and cultivating.Butternut squashes use late…

  lromainebrown

  2023

  River, Writing

• Today

  Inspired by Billy Collins’ poem If ever there were a spring day so perfect, so, uplifted by a warm intermittent breeze that it made you want to throw open all the windows in the house… By Billy Collins By River Brown If ever there were a day so clear, So clean lifted with fresh swirling…

  lromainebrown

  2023

  Writing