“Caduceus? Oh, that’s the snake thing,” says my older daughter.
This is not the answer I am seeking just at the moment, as I’m looking for my
copy of Sorina Higgins’
Here I am, writer at the desk, remembering. My memory summons up a homesick
afternoon that I must write about, and now the picture appears. There I am,
twenty-three, stretched out on the
Maybe Canadian-born rapper Drake has never read Rainer Maria Rilke’s advice in
Letters to a Young Poet: “Do not write love poems; avoid at first those forms
that are too facile and
1.
As Far as East from West
Sparse
Sprinkle:
Bloom.
Moonlight
Alighting
On branch,
Butterflies
Wobbling on breeze,
Stemmed to bark.
All careless ease,
The windless siftings,
Petals in grass.
The first unfurlings
At the creative writing center where I volunteer, we engage children in writing
fiction by presenting them with four basic tenets of a story: a main character,
a sidekick, the main character’s