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National Poetry Month Challenge Margaret Elysia Garcia Style
So far so good. Or so shitty. Does it matter as long as you get down a poem a day?! April 17 and I have 17 poems to show for it. Today’s is pretty horrible but I’m also in lots of wisdom tooth pain so...
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Los Angeles Readings and What Not
I have not lived in the town of my birth consistently since perhaps six months in 2002. Nevertheless, it calls me home in some sort of a reverse Persephone myth (my mother alas lives in the mountains...
View ArticleApril 2 Poetry Challenge: Lassen Yard
Lassen Yard My Mondays are full up now with men in (a different kind of) blue Swapping words & stories about the outside the barbed wire world my someday writers my pen stealers I look forward to...
View ArticleApril 3 Poetry Challenge The Son Also Sulks
I’m taking away from his day of nothing by forcing him to hang out and possibly do things with me like lunch, buying stuff for a project I’ve been nagging him about. Most times we exist in car rides...
View ArticleApril 8 Poetry Challenge Daughter Land
Daughter Land She reaches over and touches my hand tells me with her fake nailed manicured hand that she loves me– The year has taught me that words are fraught as any hand that could slap and scream I...
View ArticleApril 9 Poetry Challenge Poetry Is
Poetry is Possibility: Memoir-izing the day and Dwelling in the senses of the aftermath of living this moment to the next. This idea that words mean something new when arranged differently specifically...
View ArticleApril 10 Poetry Challenge Daughterland, Part 2
” We have been wounded by it (giving)” –Alberto Rios Giving: What it Takes My car door slammer, my you-don’t-get-it-you’re-too-old, my you-should-be-home-making-cookies my...
View ArticleApril 11 Poetry Challenge Daughter Land, Part 3
We are all lied to, my love mostly by ourselves we tell ourselves stories in which to wallow in which to cave in which to concede that is how we found ourselves today you with an unfinished assignment...
View ArticleApril 17 Poetry Challenge Requiem for an Ending
We meet in my office alone not too long, just long enough there are children to discuss and the taxi-ing of children to various places to various things i do not hate him if i can look at him, his face...
View ArticleApril 26. Poetry Challenge. Interior Landscapes
If you never have anything you don’t know what there was to lose… my children know, though they do as they most surely knew love and warm dinners and cracked smiles and laughter as long as the days...
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