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While Clara’s at the grocery store, Hal cuts her Knock Out roses. He wants to have them in a vase in the kitchen for when she walks in the door. He’s trying to make her happy. She used to scratch his back until he went to sleep. He does not know why she stopped doing that but he’s not going to say …

[...] I was just reading and trying to learn how to write from what I read. I wrote like Baraka for a while, I wrote like Creeley for a while, I wrote some Ginsberg poems. I just learned that way. The workshop was useful in that it showed me that people don’t see the poem the same way you do. You t…

It was a hermetic text, brimming with recondite content and promising recondite meanings that I couldn’t quite get to then.

I was trying to think of a poetic term for what you do with music, because poetry that’s inspired by paintings is called ekphrastic.

I was trying to think of a poetic term for what you do with music, because poetry that’s inspired by paintings is called ekphrastic.