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Tag: Saffron Threaded

What sort of sky

August 18, 2021August 18, 2021Categories creative writingLeave a Comment on What sort of sky

The clouds glance down and move off in great billows this afternoon, and I’m reviewing notes for the creative writing course I’ll be teaching again. It’s a busyness that I like, even though it’s really summer’s end when I do this. I had so many ideas at the beginning of summer, but now it’s all…

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Thin as thread

July 31, 2021July 31, 2021Categories creative writing, watercolor2 Comments on Thin as thread

A little bit of poetry is often much better than a lot of it. I think this is because of the space it leaves for your own silence and inner eye to work. We exchange with one another one long and secret gaze of grief, neither idle nor reckless.From the poem titled “Shahrazad” in Saffron…

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Giving and getting

July 28, 2021July 28, 2021Categories creative writingLeave a Comment on Giving and getting

I pulled over while driving home to take this photo of sunflowers yesterday morning. A moment like that gives joy because one pauses for beauty. Just now, as I sit here in my porch-office, a couple of fawns charged ahead of their mother into the back garden’s open glen between maple trees. Now they have…

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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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