I’m thinking about my friend Amy tonight. She went to the hospital yesterday with extreme stomach pain, and had a appendectomy today. I spent some time today making a batch of enchiladas and a ton of cookies for her husband and kids. That’s what we do, I’ve found, as people. When our friend are hurting and we don’t know what to do to help, we cook. After my breast surgery nearly two years ago our community fed us for eight weeks or more. I’ve never felt more loved.
Anyhow, I’m thinking about Amy and about appendices tonight. I’m thinking it will be metaphysical and strange. Time-travelly and whatnot. Here is a poem.
Appendices
Don’t let’s think about what comes after.
Let us never dwell up on in it.
Hear me now all bright and clear,
don’t let’s ever think on it.
All the greatest books have twice the ends,
and here we are, wrestling against the stuck pages.
Here we are, walking on the cliff wall,
against the spray, arm-in-arm, arm in frozen arm,
against the capsizing hearts.
No one dares say the lighthouse is out of reach, tonight.
Tonight we all sail to the lighthouse,
despite the weather.
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Well, goodness. That turned all Virginia Woolfie all of a sudden, and has nothing to do with time travel. Whoopsie. That is okay. Happy Tuesday, poemies.
Your poems make me feel proud to know you. xo
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Ack! That is an awesome thing to tell a person. I’m proud to know you too. So proud we named a kid after your music. Hugs.
I like it. Shorter than the usual, but sweet 🙂
I looked back upon all the poems of the year and realized I’ve been writing them shorter and shorter. Just like the hours of light in the winter. I’m kind of tired of writing poems. Thanks for reading them, J-fed.
Okay, just a thought. I know you made it your goal to write a poem every day. but it’s becoming tiresome and routinary, I think it would be good for you to take a break from it for a little while and do or write something else. If writing starts feeling a chore, take a break, give yourself time to miss it, then come back to it 🙂
That is good advice, and I want to heed it, but I feel compelled to continue. There’s less than a month to go, after all, and
I would like to be able to day that I said I would do something and then did it. For once.
Then let that inspire you and ideas will flow 🙂