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Category Archives: …writers’ work
Am writing
#amwriting when work is so intense I sometimes forget to breathe even though I’m listening to natural sounds like waves and rain wind and birds and a break from almost not breathing is advisable. #amwriting when courage waves at me … Continue reading
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Tagged #amwriting, courage, hudsonvalleysummer, openheartedness, refresh
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Water-centaur
In the Playa Azul video,
there’s a shot-sequence of grey and blue
sea
cloud,
with mountains erupting across a bay
at low tide.
A man, a little left of center, is wading… Continue reading
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Refresh
Changes: After a move from NYC to the Hudson River Valley region of New York State (USA), life is less circumscribed by a city’s dense population and urban landscapes. My mind and feelings are slowly infiltrating empty spaces, as if they’re shoreline caves and I’m the sea… Continue reading
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One
One mistake, touching my joyful cloth, bleeds texture, its darkness. One leaf, curling under the snowy wind, flashes color, its fire. share?
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The edge of a leaf
You touch me and stay like an autumn leaf on rain-wet stone, elemental, separate, subdued, same in beauty of this season. You touch me. I stay like an autumn leaf on rain-wet stone. (2007, rev. 2014) share?
Posted in ...hera's fire, ...writers' work, composing, conceptualizing, editing, inspiration, later poems, other arts, rhythm, sonics, writing poetry
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Ferment
Your love, without relief of occasional plosive hi-howya-doin’s, without punctuation of kisses or hugs, feels like a maelstrom. Its whirling me, its force in ferment, takes me to uneasy places, when I’d rather be by you simply listening to your … Continue reading
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Warmth
Drifting snow piles up on east-facing window screens north wind breaks it down Wrapped in cashmere memories sliding down cool as fresh snow share?
Posted in ...writers' work, ..Twitter, composing, conceptualizing, editing, ego, inspiration, later poems, other arts, rhythm, sonics, writing poetry
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Objects of Desire: A handful of plums
Like I want to close my eyes and sleep past the end of time right now, that’s how Macy felt, at the point where my story of her begins. To see her then would have been like watching one of … Continue reading
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Soft basket
A basket slung over my shoulder by leather straps, its belly shaped like a plum, wove of three kinds of grass — thick-striped — holds a stone, a shadow-self that comes and goes, places where I touch the ground, a … Continue reading
Posted in ...hera's fire, ...writers' work, conceptualizing, editing, later poems, sonics, writing poetry
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Simple
I’m blots of ink, a line or two, a supergirl you draw from inner sight. Now split the paper with your pen to find my comic heart. © 6 Jan 2009, Heather Quinn, all rights reserved; edited 5 Jan 2012, … Continue reading
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By way of the northern sky (edit 1, in work)
In the light that enters morning by way of the northern sky, a Swede encloses a Finn in his arms, absorbing her darkness, softening with his smooth brow the recurve tension on her lips, ignoring that she took him for … Continue reading
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Summer 2002
From Specimen Days: Central Park Walks and Talks, by Walt Whitman, 1892: I VISIT Central Park now almost every day… As I sit, placidly… the policeman… comes over… We grow quite friendly and chatty forthwith. He is a New Yorker … Continue reading
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Blue eyes
Rain-streaked bricks, pepper-green trees, and the sky — thick as oatmeal, and gray as a city cat — welcome a procession of Nanas, walking slow, humming descants, dressed in wraps of blue — turquoise, aquamarine, and harbor — stirring up … Continue reading
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The man in the purple shirt (wip)
What a storm. Dark, choppy river, big whitecaps riding the cross-currents. In many places, the water is higher than my ankles — I might as well have left my shoes home. There are mini-floods everywhere. Going past tennis courts, lighthouse, … Continue reading
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Takes on Google+
As wild as the sea, with a home onshore, always, that’s most safe & well-built. Like loving someone so much that saying so is almost a sin. Like sledding in fresh snow. Like feeding handfuls of grass to a foal. … Continue reading
Posted in ...Google+, ...writers' work, composing, inspiration, later poems, other arts, rhythm, sonics, writing poetry
Tagged collectible feelings, disposable words
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Travel, recalled
The morning we arrived, pepper exploded in scrambled eggs made, by Dad, with butter, pipe-smoke and an absence of everyone else. share?
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Tere liye, life goes on…
Present moments: listening to this still — it came in via Outlandish‘s Facebook feed. I’m still a little open-mouthed at how ebrahim / @eebsofresh wraps his voice in, out and around the lyrics to make something totally new of the … Continue reading
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Tanka
31 morae, 5-7-5-7-7, or, roughly, short-long-short-long-long and this by Chen-ou Liu share?
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Time and the writer
Compare Elizabeth Rubin’s new NY Times article about Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan’s President, Karzai in His Labyrinth, with her 2006 article on the Taliban resurgence in Afghanistan and Pakistan, In the Land of the Taliban. share?
Posted in ...Grafediting, ...writers' work, inspiration, writing non-fiction
Tagged Afghanistan, Asia, drug trade, Elizabeth Rubin, NY Times, politics, Taliban
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Afghanistan, Karzai, and the easy-chair critics
Elizabeth Rubin has a new NY Times article about Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan‘s President: Karzai in His Labyrinth She offers a gentle-but-tough, compassionate, and honest view of the incredibly complex nature of Afghani politics, and Karzai’s nature. As excellent as this … Continue reading
Posted in ...Grafetti, ...writers' work, conceptualizing, editing, inspiration, writing for blogs, writing non-fiction
Tagged Afghanistan, Asia, Elizabeth Rubin, global, Hamid Karzai, leadership, news, NY Times, politics
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