THE OCEAN CANNOT BE BLUE, POEMS by Kirsten Hampton. Turning Point, 2019, www.turningpointbooks.com. Detail from “One Drop” Rule If there is one emerald anchovy darting in the water the ocean cannot be blue — Kirsten Hampton, The Ocean Cannot Be […]
After such a long dry spell, it’s a bit like breaking and entering to write here. On September 1, Bruce’s and my 40th anniversary, I tried to write a post to update you about my journey, but after I drafted it, I couldn’t bring myself to hit “publish.” Today, though I have some announcements or […]
I’ve had a mighty struggle this past few weeks to do even a minimum of writing (determined to catch up this week…we will see, and, after that, to begin blogging again). Reading obsessively about dementia, getting lost in political news…these things do not seem especially helpful to me. On the other hand, reading poetry, and […]
SLEEPING LESSONS: A POEM IN PARTS, J. I. Kleinberg. Milk & Cake Press, 2025. If you find yourself awake in the night, fretting over political mayhem, have I got a book for you. Twenty numbered parts. Twenty first lines: She taught me how to sleep – A Dickinsonian cascade of variations on a theme. Instructions […]