Monday, December 30, 2013

Letter, late December

--> poem lived here

Monday, November 25, 2013

Overheard

--> poem lived here

Monday, November 18, 2013

Comfort

poem lived here

Letter home, from the Eastern outpost:

poem lived here

Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Sunday, October 20, 2013

Fairy Tale

-->
poem lived here

Monday, October 7, 2013

On swimming, and sadness...

-->
poem lived here

Saturday, September 21, 2013

Monday, September 9, 2013

Monday, September 2, 2013

Compass

  poem gone offline

Wednesday, August 28, 2013

August, ending...

May our hands smell like basil for days every end of August...

Tuesday, August 27, 2013

If I'd woken earlier...

-->
poem gone offline

Monday, August 5, 2013

Fishing


poem gone offline

Monday, July 29, 2013

Work

--> poem gone offline

Monday, July 22, 2013

In the dream...


In the dream, the girl (flesh and blood, four years old) drove the car (cardboard and matchsticks, brand new) across the field (corn stubble, clods, black crickets pinging off of weeds).

In the dream, she drove fine, though I kept telling her she couldn’t. In the dream, the sun (hydrogen, helium, carbon, nitrogen, neon. Magnetic storms) looked real, like the real sun might look, soaking in behind the scrub of trees padding the creek that cuts through the North 40 (acres: mostly corn, some soybeans, some wheat).

In the dream I was running (and the dog in my shadow ran) after the cardboard car, yelling slow down, slow down, as the girl grinned wildly, and didn’t.

In real life, the girl (flesh and blood, four years old) crawled into our bed sometime in the night (warp and weft of which is car alarm and rain. Or pulsing sky and melting asphalt. Or laughter as it moves past our front door.) Her foot is on my chest. One arm’s slung across her dad.  I study her: eyes dart wildly under sealed lids.

Monday, July 15, 2013

Monday, July 8, 2013

Begotten, 1977


--> poem gone offline

Saturday, June 29, 2013

Apology

-->poem gone offline

Monday, June 24, 2013

Bathtub Jedi

--> poem gone offline

Monday, June 17, 2013

Fragment

poem's gone offline to grow up...

Monday, June 10, 2013

Two Lights

--> poem gone offline

Monday, June 3, 2013

Van Wyck Pkwy

poem's gone offline to grow up

Sunday, May 26, 2013

Amtrak, NYC to Philly

--> poem gone offline

Saturday, May 18, 2013

In which, at 20, I make muffins in Maine:

-->
poem gone offline

Tuesday, April 30, 2013

April 30


poem was here


Monday, April 29, 2013

April 29


poem was here

Sunday, April 28, 2013

April 28

poem was here

Saturday, April 27, 2013

April 27

poem was here

Friday, April 26, 2013

April 26

poem was here

Thursday, April 25, 2013

April 25

poem was here

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

April 24

poem was here

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

April 23

poem was here

Monday, April 22, 2013

April 22

poem was here

Sunday, April 21, 2013

April 21

poem was here

Saturday, April 20, 2013

April 20

poem was here

Friday, April 19, 2013

April 19

poem was here

Thursday, April 18, 2013

April 18


poem was here

Wednesday, April 17, 2013

April 17

poem was here

Tuesday, April 16, 2013

April 16

poem was here

Monday, April 15, 2013

April 15

poem was here

Sunday, April 14, 2013

April 14

poem was here

Saturday, April 13, 2013

April 13

poem was here

Friday, April 12, 2013

April 12

poem was here

Thursday, April 11, 2013

Wednesday, April 10, 2013

April 10

poem was here

Tuesday, April 9, 2013

April 9

poem was here

Monday, April 8, 2013

April 8

poem was here

Sunday, April 7, 2013

April 7

poem was here

Saturday, April 6, 2013

April 6

poem was here

Friday, April 5, 2013

April 5

poem was here

Thursday, April 4, 2013

April 4

poem was here

Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Friday, February 22, 2013

Belated Valentine!


Time travel with heart-hat as through line....happy belated love day to all!




Thursday, February 21, 2013

Bookworm

No seat on the subway: sit on Mom's feet and study Cecil the Pet Glacier.
I love this pre-reading stage that involves taking a book every, every, everywhere. I love the whispered, remembered, made-up stories and the annoyed glance when she catches us spying. Kind of amazing to watch someone in the process of shaping and populating an inner life that has nothing to do with us. When she looks up from the page, her eyes are round and far away.
 
Fairy tales in the bathroom.


Halfway home from the library, plopped on someone's stoop with To Market, to Market.






















Tuesday, January 1, 2013

A new year...



Making pizza with Papa in Rockford, IL. Who needs pants when you have an apron?!

Back in Brooklyn, the girl wakes up with the stomach flu, which sometimes seems to give us all a glimpse of some other realm...  "Everything comes alive when we're not looking, mama," she says.

Today we'll probably hang out in our jammies in the new Christmas flannel sheets as she recovers. P and I will eat leftover Hoppin' John and greens, for luck.

We're already feeling lucky, though - thankful for the love and good health of our family and friends. Excited about the adventures 2013 will bring. And broadcasting love to all of you far-flung dears.