Thank you for your patience with my sporadic reviews--life sure does get crazy sometimes! *** Grief is a difficult thing. On one hand, we’re often told to go through the stages, heal and move on. But on the other hand, it’s not clear how long those stages “should” last, and we can be pressured to [...]
I was flipping through my notebook looking for something and found a poem that I wrote from two years ago--I said I'd have something for y'all while I'm on my reviewing break! Like most of my poetry, it's moody (if I recall correctly, I broke a glass, which shattered, and that was a tipping point [...]
Wow. If I had to choose one word to describe Notes from the Bonfire, it would be "raw." Author Matt Nagin did an excellent job of putting the pandemic into poetry. (real quick--here's a link to my vlog) These poems, while not all of the poems are explicitly linked to the pandemic, the vast majority [...]
I scheduled this book just long enough ago (and my life has been just crazy enough since) that I completely forgot that it was poetry... and you know what? It was a pleasant surprise, I'm finding that I'm really loving poetry books and I'm so glad to have gotten the chance to read Danielle Holian's [...]
I saw you in my dream last nightBut you shouldn't have been there.It's been months since I saw you lastAnd it was like you were unaware. 'You need to leave'I try to push you awayBut just as stubborn as ever,you just grin at me and stay. Once, not so long ago,a dream of you felt [...]
A Little Bit of Happiness 