THOSE WORDS ARE FROM my second favorite James Taylor song (”fire and rain” takes the top tier), Fittingly, they are a song about returning to Carolina, which is precisely where I am headed in less than 48 hours. But rather than the oft-repeated chorus that gives “Carolina in My Mind” it’s name, and [...]
1. Poems on the Underground…if you can’t take a ride on the Tube, and spot one of these treasures, you can always surf their sight, which includes streamed audio of poems read aloud…or buy a book or CD…whatever you fancy!
2. In Our Time Podcast at bbc.co.uk/radio4 provides informative discussions by academia’s leaders for [...]
IT IS THE SURREALITY OF THIS EXPERIENCE which permeates me now. I am in the library. Read: I am supposed to be studying. One more final exam on Thursday, and then it is homeward bound for me. (Don’t get me started on the idiocy of the English education system…I finished classes 2 months before my [...]
THIS PIECE SHOULD BE SUBTITLED, ‘It is Possible to Look Cool in London for 1£ or Less.’ I am packing, and therefore recounting the many gifts that londontown has bestowed upon me, with her bounty of fashionistas and never-ending pine for the dapper, drag, hipster, goth, punk, hippie, intellectual-blase, femme-fatal….and every other fashion-defined character [...]
SINCE I SEEM UNABLE to steady myself in this process of leaving London after 5 months, I spent the last several hours packing furiously, and then combing through my notebooks, dislodging a couple of lost ideas for poems i had made note of, which you will find below. I am eager to hold the [...]
as it happens, the one-year anniversary of this blog was some 48 hours ago.
yay, me.
“Second-waver”
When they call out I unconsciouslySwing my hips. Even if they’re uglyOr only fourteen. Even if I professErudite aloofness, and cling tightlyTo feminist things. I’m a second-waverPerhaps, thinking hips, breasts, babiesAre a thing to sling on and champion.Creator of the free world, Iam.
“Cat Name”
Curl to the side, exhausted, sweat easing downOff [...]
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