Stop, Observe Air as dense as wet cotton awoke me. Through the window, a squirrel nibbled on palm fruit, the fragile rays of morning illuminating inquisitive eyes. Far above, a jet full of travelers hurried to somewhere else. Continue reading Morning Meditation: Stop, Observe
“When you’re in the dark, you have to try to remember that it’s a dance – dark, light, dark, light, dim. Or when you’re in the sun but the clouds come, of course you instantly think, Oh, God, now it’s … Continue reading For Tara
February 14 I don’t need to hear you say “I love you”, I want to know you do by the look in your eyes, the touch of your hand, the way you listen when I talk. I don’t need candy, … Continue reading February 14
we decided after leaving the city to take a nature walk. Mr. Google said there was a trail nearby on Irrigation Road, we followed directions, ended up at a grey concrete building with a dead cactus in front. False … Continue reading Mr. Google has no sense of direction
Smothered rain is falling hemoglobin levels, air bleached, anemic – indrawn breathe incapable of expansion. oxygen trickles, slogs through swollen passages, struggles for space. world presses heavy, an anvil slowly cracking ribs. Continue reading Morning Meditation: Smothered
This morning I was listening to Pandora and I started thinking about some of the song lyrics that resonate with me. I’d been thinking recently about constructing a cento so I decided to write one using song lyrics instead of … Continue reading Cento: Fiendin’ #Poetry
If you follow me on Twitter you’ve already seen my tweets about these three essays. If not, here they are. I highly recommend them all. Happy Friday! Strange Inspirations: Past Resolutions & Tools to Help You Stay Focused Today … Continue reading Three Must Shares # FridayReads
I’m pleased to say I have three poems in Isacoustic. Thanks to Barton Smock for giving these poems a home. *** Why is there a pic of Jimi, you ask? Guess you’ll have to click the link to find out. 😎 Photog Unknown. Continue reading 3 Poems in Isacoustic*
I mentioned in a previous post that there’s a thriving poetry community on Twitter. Now there’s a movement, started by Kelli Russell Agodon and Donna Vorreyer , to expand the twitter poetry community into blogging. Some of the poets are … Continue reading Reading, #Writing, Sharing and what I’m doing about it
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An endless October sky casts reams of light into my lap as I contemplate the thinning skin on my hands, the blue highway of veins prominent on their mountainous journey, the joints of my fingers swollen from repeated retraction and release. The pads of my palms lie cool on my thighs, waiting on the warmth of a twentieth-century touch that no longer exists except within this thought on this blue day, proof that the body remembers. Charlotte Hamrick’s poetry and prose has been published in numerous online and print journals, most recently including Muddy River… Continue reading Keratin
