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Where Does Your Writing Go?

Poetry February 21, 2010
The Twists and Turns of Writing

When you sit down to write, what happens? Is it a thrilling experience? Does your hand tingle and do your legs shake? Or are do you anxiously fret over every word choice and syntactical construction? Does creating enliven or exhaust you? As someone who has been on both sides of this coin, I am interested in what happens to us when we write, paint, sing; in short, what happens when we create?

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The Subscriber Feed Sestina

Poetry February 20, 2010
The Subscriber Feed Sestina

Never before have the silos been so ablaze,
The atoms dipping in and out of the water wells
Licking and frolicking in the negative space.
The silent sound of columns attaching
Themselves to the hyperlinks, bits parsed
From the drunk seats of the monumental opera.

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This Reality Show

Poetry February 18, 2010
Mushroom Poetry

This reality show deafens the nerves.
Numb devices generate the blinding bells,
Pistons aflame, these exotic auctioneers
Jar me in their processed velocity.
The pace they travel.

I’ve got to get my cupcakes for the crowds
We hesitated to inform all afternoon.
They wait for us to get our act together,
But I’ve got nothing to instruct me.
The minutes stomp and I only think of canning
Winter’s tomato stock. “Enough to last the year.”

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The History Eater

Poetry February 10, 2010
Hammer and Sickle

I read once that all the stores were bursting with wares.
You forged a century without lifting a finger.
When you fell those shops fell too.
You skinned your own people; naked tomatoes
For long winter’s summer sauce.

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The Weavers

Poetry February 7, 2010
The Weavers

The hill is not as spooked anymore
The hill with the factory perched upon it
Staring down the questioned town
Riddled with gentle craftsmen
For whom making mistakes
Was their breath

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