You got me bloggin’ babes. I’m scrambled, scrambling, scramed – is that a word? I’m too busy to make hay or horsetails and I don’t know what I’m talking about.
In brief – a fellow poet asked me to be her PR Flack. I said – Hey – RISK IS GOOD! So I am her [...]
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Oh No – Is It Really March First?!
Can I Risk Following the Rules?
I am taking the risk of following one rule this morning. I’m writing my blog – even though it might not be a very good one. And I guess the second risk I’m taking is simply to ask the question, “What are the rules I need to follow? And what will I gain? What will I lose?”
Risking It
When our Blog-master (or maybe that’s blog-mistress) asked us all to think more about Risk in our writing and to make a commitment to risk – I balked. That’s what I do. As a student, I was always the annoying fly-in-the-ointment who couldn’t quite pull off an assignment without twisting it out of shape. [...]
Forgiveness, Judgment, Reframing the Moment
My lovely Uncle David died yesterday. Too young. Too savaged by cancer. Too quickly to have any opportunity to set his business or his loves in order. Three years ago, my father was given a six-month window. Significantly more than Uncle David’s two weeks which stretched into six brutally painfully weeks.
Thursday I will drive to [...]
A Prayer
Some things we do
so we might recall
having done them
The plunge from 3,000 feet
in an adult diaper to say Yes
I can fall and believe
the wind and a sheath
of plastic will spare me
A pilgrimage to Mecca, a hike
to glimpse the eruption’s heart
Sex in a field of chamomile
when clouds threaten rain
when shame hangs in prisms
through darts of complicit [...]