Month: September 2014

“Don’t prejudge your stimuli. Just trust where your attention goes.”

Do you worry about wasting time when you could be writing or otherwise productive? See this post, Have You Been Wasting Precious Time, by Diane Lockward.

“Substitute ‘damn’ every time you’re inclined to write ‘very’; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”          — Mark Twain

Four poems in Frostwriting, Issue 12!

Ghazal of Lost Dreams

         “To consider the distance, the ever-receding horizon.
         To go on, to follow the hurtling train of your dreams. . . .”

Territories

         “My body’s a map
         of ravage and mirage—”

My Other Country

         Expect wind,
         a bleak expanse.”

The Forester’s Wife

         “He wooed me in greenwood, beneath beech
         and butternut, among fir and pine. . . .”