I don’t have a plan in the world. I have the wide open sky and a bag of dried mangoes. My last girlfriend called them slices of sunshine. I have kept the phrases my friends and I made up. A teenager is “a case of ginger ale”, empty praise from the human resources director is [...]
Archive for ‘March, 2009’
As Timothy Green puts it, “Poetry is everywhere… It happens by accident all the time.” The idea behind his Found Poetry Project is to see what happens when you look for those accidents. Maybe a note on your power bill sounds like a haiku, or a message your drunk friend left sounds like free association. [...]
If you think a poet might be in it for the love of their own voice, you might be right. Which borrowed “causes” do you find the most offensive for bad writers, politicians, and other public figures to take up?
Have you ever made a commitment you thought you wanted, then been relieved when it became impossible to fulfill?
Have you ever had a moment you wanted to hold on to, keep feeling longer than it could last? What have you tried to do to sustain it?
When the markets began to crash, I thought they’d bottom soon. I bet on a rebound that never came. My pulse raced at the financial news, the win so tangible, the loss so unthinkable. Now, they say that hope has strength, but I can tell you, it does not have effect. Every day, another one [...]


