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Kindness

January 15, 2022February 7, 2022Categories creative writingLeave a Comment on Kindness

We could have courage, discipline or kindness for dinner tonight, so which’ll it be? They all sound good, right? I’m going with kindness right now. Partly because I have had to serve extra helpings of courage and discipline every night of this whole pandemic, just to get through. How does kindness taste? Is that what…

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Last

November 10, 2021Categories creative writingLeave a Comment on Last

I wonder if I’m noticing enough, even as I pause over fresh red leaves in the roadside next to the curb. There’s pleasure in writing poems, even breathless with exertion of reluctance. The last robin in our neighborhood to fly away for winter might have gone already, or might not yet. A poem waits and…

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Equivalence

September 22, 2021September 25, 2021Categories creative writing1 Comment on Equivalence

I had forgotten about the way I kept “teaching shoes” in my car after this year-and-a-half in virtual classrooms. It’s so good to be with students, in living presence, and there’s no equivalent for it. Now that the school semester is fully underway, most of my thought and energy is in the lectures, discussions, assignments.…

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Each singing

September 15, 2021September 15, 2021Categories creative writingLeave a Comment on Each singing

What do butterflies say? If a child asked me that, I’d say “listen.” This past Sunday, my neighbor and I walked up the newly built section of trail that leads from Nyack Beach State Park to the Long Path, which climbs to the peak of Hook Mountain. We met a woman named Felicia, who teaches…

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The art of falling

September 6, 2021September 7, 2021Categories creative writingLeave a Comment on The art of falling

A tree laid its crown on the ground, mindful of the saplings nearby, mindful to lay it across the meadow somehow, away from the sculptures. Now an attentive ear much taller than a poet stays cocked at the side of the footpath: an enormous ellipse of tangled root, rock, and earth. On a bright morning…

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A primitive presence

September 1, 2021September 1, 2021Categories creative writing1 Comment on A primitive presence

There are moments I don’t photograph or write about, though they are worthy of a creative expression. Maybe that’s partly why I took up painting and guitar this year, to see if more angles of approach could widen my praise of life. But it hasn’t really changed the level of silence I keep. A blue…

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Borrowing lines

August 22, 2021August 22, 2021Categories creative writing2 Comments on Borrowing lines

Painting while listening to virtual programs on Zoom, Crowdcast, Vimeo, Coursera and other platforms has given me a new appreciation for those students who sketch and doodle in my classes. I’m not sure if my topics ever influence their artwork, but I know I find interweavings in my experiences of observing sound while engaged in…

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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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Trees at rest

August 15, 2021Categories creative writing, literature, watercolorLeave a Comment on Trees at rest

Our dogwood tree has already set its fists for next spring’s blossoms. I don’t want to believe that autumn is so near. But I try to convince myself of the truth with a painting. I wanted to copy the beautiful tree in the center of this folio page, which was painted in Herat in the…

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Heat is a translation

August 12, 2021August 13, 2021Categories creative writing, If you want to make..., literatureLeave a Comment on Heat is a translation

If suns grew in a field together, would they get along? If stars fell into fields, would we memorialize them? If the crescent moon mowed the field, what kind of hay would that make? Poems are made of heat, light, consciousness. On a hot day in August like this, maybe poems get lost. Maybe in…

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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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