by lori | Jul 25, 2017 | Acceptance, Essays, Grace, Imagination, Play and Magic, Story, Unapologetically Odd, Wayfinding
In late February 2017 before the gray skies here on Whidbey became blue, I looked out the window and saw a poem, about a dead tree, in the middle of the just-barely-beginning-to-bud forest. I called the poem Life 101. I eventually saw it for what it was: a poem for my... by lori | Jan 8, 2015 | Alzheimer's, Caregiving, Here and now, Love, Poetry, Women, Work
This just-messing-around, poetic-calisthenics poem is a tribute to the work of poet Jericho Brown: specifically, his poem Heart Condition, the first poem of his that I happened upon. Go find it. Read it. You won’t be sorry. Better yet, buy one of his books. Here...