Tag: birds
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birding with Edward Hirsch
This week’s poem – “Branch Library” by Edward Hirsch – takes me back to being a kid getting dropped off at the Greenwood Library in Corpus Christi, Texas (an experience I recently wrote a short essay about). Those early experiences of wandering stacks are with me in some small part to this day as I…
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* special feature: Poet Lore magazine & a poem
“I know you are reading this poem as you pace beside the stove warming milk, a crying child on your shoulder, a book in your hand because life is short and you too are thirsty.” —Adrienne Rich This week on the Influence: Poet Lore! One piece of advice that has helped me grow in spirit…
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* Fanny Howe & the friday influence
(poem from Robeson Street) – Fanny Howe Pushing children in plaid & silver prams us mothers were dumpy, hunched in the damp and our redlipped infants sucked on their strange fingers …
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* life sketches from the road
she kills a spider on my shirt the stain the orange of fresh rust she says sorry and in the morning sun I do not know to who *** on the track I run in circles the birds get out of my way *** Happy running! J
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