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What returns love
I had a brief, bright infatuation with a feral squash, meanwhile the world keeps spinning. Here's a poem by Louise Glück.
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This place could be beautiful
I get sentimental after midnight. Also a poem you know and love.
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In the middle of everything
We're going back to the desert not a minute too soon. I struggle with patience. I have many books. And a poem—a sonnet!—by Diane Seuss.
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Your heart is an accordion
Looking back with gratitude at the last month, an absurd new intention, and a poem by Mahogany L. Browne.
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If I write a love poem
In praise of the liberatory imagination and a poem by Miguel James.
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Somewhere there's a road
Catastrophe thinking as creative practice, why the hell I'm like this, and breathing. Also a poem, a beautiful poem! This one by Ross Gay.
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Years that answer
I write notes to myself to remember. I keep scraps I don't want to forget. Here are some from the past year.
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In flows a peach
Letting the day go how it wants, also a poem I read every morning for a week.
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Everywhere I go
A new experience, a tried and true method, and puzzles left unfinished. Also a little Aracelis Girmay, as a treat.
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Once more. There.
Texts I sent and didn't send, things I did and did not say, words I read that nearly worked the week that I lost Mimsy.
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A sweeter arrangement
I learned a new word and had a nice moment with a tree. Mimsy was there too.
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More each day
Hey real quick: be fucking nice to you.