Several of you have asked me about my writing...so this page is an opportunity for those of you who are fellow writers and those of you curious (or bored or whatever) to take a peek at my poetry. I will post a poem about once a month. Analyze any poem using any of our poetry explication methods for a ten point extra credit homework assignment! (Analysis must include literal meaning, rhetorical devices, and poetic effect.)
PS--Students often ask me if my poems are autobiographical. Sometimes yes, sometimes no. I write from experience, but often just a kernel of something--a commercial, an article, a person on the street, a photograph--becomes the creative subject of my imagination, and the poems take root there. Truth or fiction, the experience "grows" itself on paper, becomes the poem.
Today
the planetary shift
Work dissassembled
Life rearranged:
Alarm clocks, annoying,
lie silent, dusty
Beds are unmade,
rooms repainted
Suits hang in the closet
dry-cleaned but unworn
Swimsuits are scattered
across the shower rod
dripping with content
Kids, cokes, pool floats
come and go in hourly flux
I sit in the comfort
Of my cedarwood rocker
Its creaking
nearly forgotten
but so familiar in its song:
summer, it says with a sigh,
summer.