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Poetic medicine

Poetic medicine

December 18, 2022December 18, 2022
Keep leaves

Keep leaves

September 11, 2022October 9, 2022
Inscrutable

Inscrutable

July 8, 2022July 23, 2022
Reminder

Reminder

May 28, 2022May 28, 2022
End on end

End on end

December 31, 2021January 1, 2022
Last

Last

November 10, 2021
Each singing

Each singing

September 15, 2021September 15, 2021
Real poetry

Real poetry

August 4, 2021August 14, 2021
Doing nothing

Doing nothing

June 5, 2021July 11, 2021

The numbers

January 23, 2023January 23, 2023Categories creative writing2 Comments on The numbers

Counting syllables, counting on images to carry you, counting the stanzas in the back of your mind, counting on soul to show up in the lines. Do we count the number of fishermen laughing in January chill along the river while on our Sunday walk, and do we count on the river to carry away…

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Word spark

January 12, 2023Categories creative writing2 Comments on Word spark

Indian necklaces are heavy in the way that the moon is heavy. When you wear one, you have to move steadily as Earth to avoid causing it to twist. The sweet glow of reflected light from its gold and gems, as everyone notices, is much more lovely than incandescence. The tidal effect in a room…

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Summarily admit

December 28, 2022Categories creative writing1 Comment on Summarily admit

The way ice falls on us during winter holidays fills the imagination with shapes. Single-digit cold and drift-covered roads meant dangerous driving from home to hometown for me and many others this week. But I'm stubborn (as most poets inevitably must be). The pastoral mood exerted its irresistible pull, and we braved salted highways and…

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Laced place

December 12, 2022December 12, 2022Categories creative writingLeave a Comment on Laced place

Waiting for my car at the dealership's service department this morning, I gaze at the flat-screen television in front of me, admiring a beautiful, crackling fire that should be framed by a magnificent fireplace. Yes, a little strange, but not in an unwelcome way. The Fireplace 4K experience erases some of the cold, alienating, new-car-smell,…

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If eyes sing

December 4, 2022December 4, 2022Categories creative writingLeave a Comment on If eyes sing

When it is cold and windy at night, the morning often reveals many deer lying in the garden, sheltering in the downslope under dogwood and forsythia. Here, they find a break from the breath of December on their not-quite-winter coats. The rest of the yellow leaves from the maple fell last night, making golden beds.…

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Why buy

November 25, 2022November 25, 2022Categories creative writingLeave a Comment on Why buy

Just a reminder if you’re shopping this weekend that poetry books make beautiful gifts. Some nice sales, some good reasons…

Warmth aligned

November 23, 2022November 23, 2022Categories creative writingLeave a Comment on Warmth aligned

The curve of each line of each branch in each tree smiles at us. Clear, dark skies keep pouring heaps of stars into the lines. Silhouetted in the shrubs next to the road, several deer watch us pass by. Gratitude moves in all directions. I wish all poems were like this. It might take me…

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Bio-digressive

November 14, 2022Categories creative writingLeave a Comment on Bio-digressive

Making art is a good way to get to know yourself and others, and it usually feels good. Sometimes not. Sometimes you can get in trouble, as my daughter did in her art class the other day when she was being less-than-cautious with scissors. She's in high school now and definitely knows better, but when…

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Open or closed

November 6, 2022Categories creative writing2 Comments on Open or closed

My favorite word is “or,” a hinge on which possibilities can open and close securely, which is an obvious necessity when using prose. But it’s more than that to me. Ask a question using “or,” and you will understand. It requires you to imagine what might be. If you really wish to complete the thought…

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Red copper gold

October 31, 2022October 31, 2022Categories creative writingLeave a Comment on Red copper gold

Landscapes fade to gold around here. Gold is their resting state, revealed only just before the dark. Whole hillsides melt into caramel. Sunrise seems to last all day long, but the light dissolves a little more week by week. Light a candle before you read a poem at night. To make anything with this landscape,…

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A. Anupama is an Indian-American poet, watercolorist, essayist and critic. MFA graduate from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her new poetry chapbook Saffron Threaded is available from Dancing Girl Press.

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