After sheltering
with my family
for three years,
I'm alone in our
house. My family
is traveling.
I'm lonesome
and expansive.
This conflict is
strange. I love
these empty rooms
and I want
my loved ones
to get home soon.
right on the nose. I am retired, dont have a lot of money but I will tell people what you are doing. Ive been raving about your since the early nineties and know lots of people. I taught high school lin Northamppton Ma for twenty years. We got Lone Ranger and Tonto into the sophomore American lit, and some teaclhers also got into the 9th grade nglishf ourse The Part Time Diary. More later( Ill tell you what a great time we all had when I gave my Creative Writing class your amazingonepage story Scalp Dance of Spokane Indian, and also First Indian On the Moon( compared to a Simon Ortiz story about an elder watching dynamite). Be well. Keep going. Fock the Phillsteens who continue to choke on their smoke. also if you havent yet checkekd some of these South Korean poets, you aare in for a Huge TREAT - Vi Khi Nao, Mai Der Vang,, Kim Yideum, Don Mee Choi, Kim Min Jeong - run dont walk to wherever you order books fromv some of the best poetry in the World along with Mahmoud Darwish of Palestine, the US' own Cave Canem poets DougL Kearney, Tyoehimba Jess and Orme and two of my lifelong faves from 1967 on up- Sterling A.Brown and Gwendolyn Brooks, and one of the chieftanss of the whole schmear Pablo Neruda, and an early favorite of mine Pablo Nerduda
right on the nose. I am retired, dont have a lot of money but I will tell people what you are doing. Ive been raving about your since the early nineties and know lots of people. I taught high school lin Northamppton Ma for twenty years. We got Lone Ranger and Tonto into the sophomore American lit, and some teaclhers also got into the 9th grade nglishf ourse The Part Time Diary. More later( Ill tell you what a great time we all had when I gave my Creative Writing class your amazingonepage story Scalp Dance of Spokane Indian, and also First Indian On the Moon( compared to a Simon Ortiz story about an elder watching dynamite). Be well. Keep going. Fock the Phillsteens who continue to choke on their smoke. also if you havent yet checkekd some of these South Korean poets, you aare in for a Huge TREAT - Vi Khi Nao, Mai Der Vang,, Kim Yideum, Don Mee Choi, Kim Min Jeong - run dont walk to wherever you order books fromv some of the best poetry in the World along with Mahmoud Darwish of Palestine, the US' own Cave Canem poets DougL Kearney, Tyoehimba Jess and Orme and two of my lifelong faves from 1967 on up- Sterling A.Brown and Gwendolyn Brooks, and one of the chieftanss of the whole schmear Pablo Neruda, and an early favorite of mine Pablo Nerduda
Oh, yes, I can imagine that. Well written and beautiful poem. You make the love for your loved ones so recognizable and vivid. Brilliant.