National Poetry Month
Poets, Writers, Readers, Friends:
April 2011 is over! Thanks to those who read these poems & thanks to those who wrote a poem a day & shared it with us—it’s been wonderful. I’ve taken my poems down for revision & perhaps I can turn these bits of wild blackberry vines into something worth picking, freezing & canning, and someday kitchen worthy.
I’ve left the first lines as memories & proof.
Best wishes,
Kara Dorris, Editor-in-Chief
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A Month of Text/Test Messages
April 1, 2011
What am I doing? Does it matter—
April 2, 2011
Yesterday, I found the lizards—
April 3, 2011
We did a revision exercise Thursday—
April 4, 2011
I’m so tired of hospitals—
April 5, 2011
There is no beach near here, nothing—
April 6, 2011
We’ve tried everything to cure—
April 7, 2011
Now what? We sit around drinking—
April 8, 2011
I woke late, milk-less with a bowl—
April 9, 2011
My highway of sure things:—
April 10, 2011
Everyone knows Friday’s are the most—
April 11, 2011
Once it flooded & the river—
April 12, 2011
You know the feeling when you—
April 13, 2011
Earrings of wire & bone, baubles—
April 14, 2011
My grandmother used to add sugar—
April 15, 2011
Have you ever seen a glass car—
April 16, 2011
Where is my mind?—
April 17, 2011
(Object 3:) The clock on the mantle—
April 18, 2011
Life in 3D: I hold my hand out &—
April 19, 2011
My favorite rodeos end with a dance—
April 20, 2011
I’ve been forgetting—like where—
April 21, 2011
Did you know that stripes break up—
April 22, 2011
The night sky, that black is suckerpunched—
April 23, 2011
Do you think she did it?—
April 24, 2011
The lightening came. I called down—
April 25, 2011
Baby ladybugs look like ticks—
April 26, 2011
I have a new V shaped pattern of—
April 27, 2011
Did you know hearing aids—
April 28, 2011
Something burns, like the burn—
April 29, 2011
Underwater, every woman’s graceful—
April 30, 2011
We often forget that we don’t own—
