for you, a little poetry

11.11.25

putting the beds to bed

She watches the demise outside, overgrowths from summer
browning deciduously. It is, even from enough distance, a kind of carnage.
Curled carcasses of leaves all over the paths, kale stiff and starchy,
the basil stalks skeletal. What if, she wonders, I do nothing? A whole season
could pass this way, every death taking its own putrefying time and she
on the other side of the window, warming her toes on the hearth.
She doesn’t have to keep looking if she doesn’t want to, but you know what
they say about train wrecks. In the tool shed, a pair of neon-green rubber gloves,
clippers, a rake minus a center tine but with still enough tooth to pull.
Winter is headed here, unavoidable as a rusk of bread no one wants to eat.
Maybe it matters that it’s just begun to rain, so she can feel the labor
of what she is about to do, so the sweetened stain of it lingers on her boots.

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Storygathering: A Writing Exploration for the Visually Curious

Storygathering is an exercise in noticing the world around us for its rich narrative potential. For a single week, we'll be infusing our daily journeys with a layer of new attention, learn to identify the possibilities that lie in our literal path every single day—discarded, lost, or forgotten objects that we will use as platforms and inspirations for our creative writing. This course will focus on short-form work - poetry, flash fiction, brief essays - and our online classroom space will allow us to upload photos to help support our written work, as well as share in the experiences and discoveries of others.

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Thursday, December 11 at 7 pm Eastern (on Zoom)

Join me for December’s “Conversation in Poetry” with James Crews, editor of the acclaimed anthologies The Wonder of Small Things, The Path to Kindness, and Love Is for All of Us: Poems of Tenderness and Belonging from the LGBTQ+ Community and Friends, and author of Unlocking the Heart: Writing for Mindfulness, Courage, and Self-Compassion and the newly released Turning Toward Grief: Reflections on Life, Loss, and Appreciation. We’ll be centering our poem-sharing around the theme “unseasonable blossoms.” To register, go here.

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11.11.25

Upcoming Writing Class: Storygathering

Storygathering: A Writing Exploration for the Visually Curious

SAVE THE DATE!Thursday, December 11 at 7 pm Eastern (on Zoom)

SAVE THE DATE!
Thursday, December 11 at 7 pm Eastern (on Zoom)