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Saturday, January 19, 2013

Always Unexpected

I'll just say it was a bad week, and share this draft of a poem:

Always Unexpected

This morning I wrote “too soon, too soon, too soon”
across the top of a grainy sheet of paper
and tried to remember her face, the student
who left us after planning for next September.
There are so many, year after year. 
You love them, many of them. 
Some, you’d like to forget. Some
you forget without trying. In all, you see
the babies they were, the motherly love
that brought them through their first prone days,
the struggles and entitlements that brought them to you.

Wishing for time. Wishing for time.

 

 

 

Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Happy New Year and a Review

Happy New Year!

 

If I were to make a New Year’s resolution, it would be to blog regularly.

Unfortunately, that is as far as it’s going, because I don’t make NY resolutions.

    Here is a review by poet Jim Zukowski of _Fancy Clapping_. Thanks, Rumpus. Thanks, Jim.

http://therumpus.net/2013/01/fancy-clapping-by-mark-d-dunn/