The only member of the King Lear. Glee Club and Dancing Society. Meets this morning on a bus stop bench. In the Kroger parking lot to perform. The Off This Mortal Coil Shuffle. His hair is ruffled,. While only his own fingers. Play on his xylophone ribs. He rises to scuttle crabwise among the Pontiacs. And Chryslers, peering into their windows. To sneer at the food wrappers and baby seats,.

The poetry and ramblings of one Emily Katherine. Favorite Poets in Athens, GA. Poems, listed by title. Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Follow Gut Punch Poetry on WordPress. For my parents; on journeys. I put off writing this poem. I kept waiting for the perfect words to arrive. Words I could gather in my cupped hands like minnows, hold them out to you,.

A Woman Retires and Rides Cross Country. Day 78, August 16, Sunday, Blue Ridge Falls to Middlebury, VT, 47 miles. Time to eat the two chocolates by my bed and go to sleep. 15, Sat, Raquette Lake to Blue Ridge, NY, 64 miles. The ride after Blue Mountain Lake, much less touristy and busy.

Friday, April 3, 2015. I long to think invisible thoughts. But without moving my head I see a white goat. A gray donkey a white horse marked by a brown leaf shape on one flank. A brown horse with a white face a black cow another black cow. A black and white dog a tawny long-haired dog. Yellow green grass skinned over a low slope. Tilting above the run-off creek at its bottom. Like a slow wave of red dirt punctured. By the gray lilac trunks of pecan trees. Bare of leaves but waiting with lifted arms.

Friday, December 30, 2016. Instead of being a heart-shaped box. You chose to be a garden tool. You chose to be useful. Trying to gain unconditional love. Wednesday, December 28, 2016. 1 What comes first? A The right place? C The right body? 2 How many times can you keep lifting weights until the weight of feeling like your body is too heavy to lift subsides? .

There is no knowing what lies around the next curve, or even whether I will reach it. But writing offers unparalleled opportunities to make the most of the journey while it lasts. Leave a Reply Cancel reply.