Tag: cinquains

• * Sylvia Plath, boarded trains & the friday influence

  Metaphors – Sylvia Plath I’m a riddle in nine syllables, An elephant, a ponderous house, A melon strolling on two tendrils. O red fruit, ivory, fine timbers! This loaf’s big with its yeasty rising. Money’s new-minted in this fat purse. I’m a means, a stage, a cow in calf. I’ve eaten a bag of green…

  José Angel Araguz

  November 16, 2012

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• * strange week 2: tree yoga & cinquains

  So: another strange week has come upon us. (No – nothing to do with the election.  Well, not really.) There has been some construction going on in our house these past two weeks, much of it occurring on my days off – which are the days that I sit down to formulate the good thoughts…

  José Angel Araguz

  November 9, 2012

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  astrology, bookstore, chapbook, cinquains, construction, Corpus Christi, creative writing, Eugene Oregon, Jose Angel Araguz, literature, lyric poems, poetry, poetry workshop, short lyric poems, the friday influence, The Wall, Tiger’s Eye Press, trees, Virgo, writing, yoga