I Blame Trump on Game of Thrones
I wonder what Jung would have to say about it, how for years now we have saturated the collective unconscious with stories of war, collusion and incest…
Read MoreDear Editor: A Poem in Four Tweets
Dear Editor,
Are you okay?
I only ask because
your selections of late
have gone rather grim.
Not an ode to joy
among them,
not one kiss.
Natural Wonder
Last week, Trump pulled the U.S. out of the Paris Climate Accord. This poem is not about that.
Read MoreBemused
Petrarch had his Laura,
a phoenix feather for his pen.
Danté’s blessed Beatrice
sent him to hell and back again.
Rilke’s heart-sick panther.
Burns’ wee tim’rous beastie.
None tremble with the thrill I feel
whenever you retweet me.
Young Female Writer’s Lament
Why is everything I try to do coming out stilted and slow today? I blame you. The general, faceless you. The you who keeps telling me I need to be smaller, wittier, brief.
Read MoreA Leap Day Altar (and more)
“There are two paths to transformation: the way out-beyond and the way deep-within. Either way will work. But it’s no good to stay here wavering between the two, weighing which one asks the least of you.”
A leap day altar, and more excerpts from my altar-a-day challenge…
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