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My Cabinet of Distractions: September 2006
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My Cabinet of Distractions. Saturday, September 30, 2006. Not just because I'm off to see Hem later. Today is the day: after I complete three writing tasks (because everything happy in my life these days seems to require at least two or three writing tasks), I leave for Cleveland. My ardent soul leaps up: I feel little embarrassment about saying so. The weather is rainy and blechhy (today's picture of these hallucinatorily lovely leaves, close and not-close, red and not-red, is 24 hours old as I post...
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My Cabinet of Distractions: July 2006
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My Cabinet of Distractions. Monday, July 31, 2006. Poems are a better fate than prosing. Stopped at the bookstore today after a long lunch with a student I haven't seen in a year, I decided to continue building my twentieth-century poetry collection (so scant, so neglected) by buying James Wright's Above the River: Complete Poems. In pasture where the leaf and wood. Were lorn of all delicious apple,. And underfoot a long and supple. Bough leaned down to dip in mud,. I came before the dark to stare. So, a...
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My Cabinet of Distractions: April 2006
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My Cabinet of Distractions. Sunday, April 30, 2006. An embodiment of the phrase "populous solitude.". Kind of correspondent- again.). Today I am thinking about my dearth of writing to darling ER (giggle, blush) because it is her birthday. I don't know how she's celebrating, but I hope that this message will help bring a beautiful day to a close. I hope, that is, that her birthday has been a beautiful one, the only kind she deserves. Lesson, and said, "Did you hear what happened? Movie She and her sister-...