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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

Water’s fall

September 4, 2022September 5, 2022Categories creative writing1 Comment on Water’s fall

How thirsty will we have to get? Drought looks terrible on the Hudson’s palisade, where trees have browned all along the crest. The brook in my neighborhood had dried up completely last week, but got back a trickle at least, which I noticed while walking Old Mountain Road this morning. The beech saplings alongside might…

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In hand

August 24, 2022August 24, 2022Categories creative writingLeave a Comment on In hand

I remember getting perfectly ticked off and putting down his novel for three months the first time I read Salman Rushdie’s work. It wasn’t because something had offended my ideas or beliefs, but that I felt as though he had played a trick on me. Designed as it was to twist expectations, I felt made…

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Beginning

August 7, 2022August 7, 2022Categories creative writing1 Comment on Beginning

The grace of starting something new isn’t mentioned all that much, at least, not as much as we talk about the discipline to get started or the inspiration to begin. Maybe it’s because grace is not in our control at all, unlike these other two. I'd like to acknowledge and give credit to grace itself…

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Prefixes

July 30, 2022July 31, 2022Categories creative writingLeave a Comment on Prefixes

My daughter and I were talking about the difference between “overwhelmed” and “whelmed” in the car while I merged onto a parkway. I think those words are close to each other but not freely interchangeable. Creative work thrives on “whelmed,” as a kind of outflow of real compassion. “Overwhelmed” seems like the crowded on-ramp, where…

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Like a heart

July 23, 2022July 24, 2022Categories creative writingLeave a Comment on Like a heart

Like painting with colors no one can see. Like writing a poem with one word. Like remembering a celebratory dinner only by the brilliant smiles around the table. That’s what a true heart truly likes. I started a new job as copywriter in a medical communications company this week, which prompted one of my poetry…

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How well

July 21, 2022July 23, 2022Categories creative writingLeave a Comment on How well

Midsummer nights are meant for dreams that serve to lengthen summer days. No matter how slowly the moon wanes, I don’t complain, and instead stretch to “awake the pert and nimble spirit of mirth.” A jigsaw puzzle fit into our weekend do-nothing plans. I chose this fun, literary one from the New York Review of…

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Independent of

July 3, 2022July 3, 2022Categories creative writingLeave a Comment on Independent of

A tiny fawn has made a bed for itself next to the stone foundation adjacent to my porch. A week old now, and, tonight, it didn’t spring up when I came outside to water the flower boxes on the railing with my collection of begonias, verbena, dianthus, violet galaxy-streaked petunias, coleus, and mint. We have…

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Roar

June 26, 2022June 27, 2022Categories creative writingLeave a Comment on Roar

At least it’s beautiful when the feminine divine is completely enraged. Does someone point out the real beauty to us? Will it help us shift into what is good? My cousin sent me this viral video today— a bharatanatyam and hip-hop fusion dance. Laughing and smiling is a good break from roaring. https://youtu.be/Saj65ySCOSo This morning’s…

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On course

June 18, 2022June 18, 2022Categories creative writingLeave a Comment on On course

Walk somewhere, and you know that place better, even if you’re resisting it. I’m reflecting on many days at my alma mater Vermont College of Fine Arts, which announced this week it is letting go of its beautiful campus atop Montpelier’s steep hillside. The programs will continue, thankfully, with a new location for in-person residency,…

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White petals

June 13, 2022Categories creative writingLeave a Comment on White petals

It’s the season of white wildflowers here: honeysuckle and briar roses and horse chestnut trees in bloom. It’s infuriating, trying to paint them in watercolor. The process requires restraint, a yielding to the blank white of the paper, which is in a way quite the opposite of a writer’s training. But I like the challenge…

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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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