Relax Bad things are going to happen. Your tomatoes will grow a fungus and your cat will get run over. Someone will leave the bag with the ice cream melting in the car and throw your blue cashmere sweater in the drier. Your husband will sleep with a girl your daughter’s age, her breasts spilling … Continue reading Ellen Bass – Relax

What a poem! damn! It's been a year since I have left Chicago! a whole year! From one home to another to another to another - I have died so many times, and hope to die many mores! Taken many axes to walls, I hope to take many more! The New Rule Rumi   It’s … Continue reading Rumi – The New Rule

Two Hundred and Fourteen 2.27.17 Note : Apparently you cannot do background color and text color here -- which is how I originally wrote "Some Notes on Colors, 2.27.17" - so I just added photos... Here's a poem I wrote in response to my feelings after reading Wendy Cope's poem: Some Notes on Colors [I,II]

Two Hundred and Twelve 2.20.17 This is not your regular grumpy Bukowski, this is not the dirty ol' bastard who takes in all the low points of life and projects them on a white page, the same way a projector projects movies on screen. This is much more softer, this is the Bukowski of the blue … Continue reading Charles Bukowski – The Laughing Heart

Two Hundred and eleven 2.17.17 Hawt!  In Love with Raymond Chandler Margaret Atwood An affair with Raymond Chandler, what a joy! Not because of the mangled bodies and the marinated cops and hints of eccentric sex, but because of his interest in furniture. He knew that furniture could breathe, could feel, not as we do … Continue reading Margaret Atwood – In Love with Raymond Chandler

Two Hundred and ten 2.16.17 "Come with me into the field of sunflowers" Will you? Will you leave your books, your tools, your job, your kids, your lovers, your prayer, will you leave the all behind and come? Will you leave all that keeps you connected to the you that you have created so carefully, and come … Continue reading Mary Oliver – The Sunflowers

Two Hundred and Nine 2.13.17 Hey you! It's been a while, and I have much to tell you...but perhaps not now! Just so you know, even I have not written or sent you anything in a while.. I have been thinking about you and love imagining looking at you when I sit by a window on … Continue reading From Sonnet to Orpheus – Rilke

Happy Birthday Langston! 2.1.17 Two Hundred and Eight Langston Hughes The Dream Keeper Bring me all of your dreams, You dreamer, Bring me all your Heart melodies That I may wrap them In a blue cloud—cloth Away from the too—rough fingers Of the world. And that is what poetry may do, wrap up your dreams, … Continue reading Langston Hughes – The Dream Keeper

Resist like goats my friends, also huddle up as needed! Cuddles and hugs are important in times of resistance! Also my mom is a total badass - had a phone call with her and she laughed at my barely audible voice.. (I lost most of it yesterday) This is what said: "Next time take a … Continue reading Naomi Shihab Nye – 300 Goats

Two Hundred and Five 1.23.17 Revolt! Rant: Ah man! What a time to be alive, and what a weekend! I feel immensely inspired and strong, as I walked down the streets of DC and marched along a million people, mostly amazing women. Damn I don't want to walk on the sidewalk no more, and I … Continue reading Walt Whitman – SONGS OF INSURRECTION. Number 1