Vacillating Crudities
An examination of the process of writing a particular poem. The name comes from Poe’s essay “A Philosophy of Composition” and refers to the process of an author commenting on the creation of their work
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Pixed
Read more: PixedA poem about faith, trust and hope for our world and that pixies still roam our woods.
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And I Also Forget
Read more: And I Also ForgetToday my mom forgot that I had just visited. That floored me.
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September 3
Read more: September 3September 3 How did this summer day become this–cool, bright, hopeful?Tulip Poplar leaves mottle the driveway,having turned color already here in South Central Pennsylvania, which is somehow also the Northeast, and I’m sitting and sipping coffeetossing frisbees for our dogs and it’s only eleven degrees Celsius, as if summer’s clutch slipped and burned into fall–AKA…
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or is it Hope?
Read more: or is it Hope?We had an office in our house in Indiana that is the model for this one. Because that office is in my head, I have a hard time reading the poem and knowing whether I’ve really captured what I still see about that space. But I’ve got the important parts, I think–how my mom did…
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Sebago, 6 a.m.
Read more: Sebago, 6 a.m.Six a.m. has quickly become 9:30 a.m. this morning, a poem that seems like it might have been written in an hour taking much more than that. One of the things I love about writing is the time I get to spend tending to individual word choices, choices that may not seem to have much…
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