60 essays done / take up 20 more today

but BUT mama & granny are coming to NOLA on Friday!  wooohooo, makes everything all good in the world according to mwah.

poem from MMM - Tucson ache

Fall in My Garden

For Danielle and Shelly         

October

into November—

my favorite time

in the garden.

Here in the desert,

it’s when I feel

most connected

to the earth.

           

The light softens

and turns golden

as the sun lays lower

in the bluer sky

as it travels

through the day.

The harshness of light

is gone

until June returns.

Like the plants,

my breath deepens—

and slows.

[...]

When I move inside my house

in December—

away from my garden—

a gathering-in happens for me.

I pull the edges of my life

up around me,

only going out

to visit my plants

onthe warmest

of the winter days.

Mary Martha Miles

October 2012

Tucson, Arizona

TWO ABRAHAM SMITH POEMS UP AT VERSE DAILY! WOOOOOOHOOOOOOOO!

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what kept me
from shooting myself
when i was ten
was going to the river bridge
fish like flags that's all
all i have ever had
to say
fish like flags and i probably stolid
that from v woolf
sometimes comfortable
with the current sometimes advancing on it
like life

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mmm long time remembering
the tug of the waters against my ankles
in the days before hairs
something like time is a rinsing thing
or star a alabaster start or
like a river i am always just begin
if how you approach things is clean
then poke this way along
up over the lane where
the creaking and the fans and the more
more belts watch
your fingers around them friend
behind the beautiful rocking
never will quite quit tip
this grace friend
you don't have to wait for what i am talking about
hug me out airy fear manure carts
throwing turkey tail of you know what
till the land stands so green
them golfing radicals
dream and drool
a pillow so heather in linnet
you could wring it and
satiate an birdie
for least one two moon

day 4 grading grading

super happy, peaceful, relieved that my second book is near completion / three & a half years of writing / a year of editing / l i o n s 2014

so proud to have a poem from a 2010 issue featured in this anniversary anthology: even more proud that past student, Rachel Mindell, is well into her MFA & editing this thing: go grrrrrl! wish i could make this lovely event!

back on the hunt - cvs, cover letters, teaching philosophy - being an adult can be tiresome indeed

love

lol BILL WETZEL / Yo Sherwin, yo Allison, I need you to holler at this girl too!

Whit & baby Ella visited NOLA

count your blessings

fall in nola

trees, trees, and a pale kind of sunlight

I'm lovin Top Chef NOLA

home

done grading party party party party

i have teenage sister bears - oct is the la's bday month - officially 13

squash stew

neighborhood cat

snugs

into georgia what green world / surreptitious the light