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Laura
Lately I've been playing around with this haiku magnetic poetry kit I got recently. I've been putting the words together kind of instinctively, not terribly quickly but not without a lot of deep thought. it's... More »
Laura
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else. --Emily Dickinson
Laura
Awakening to the truth that, as Byron Katie says, THIS is paradise. It's hard to internalize. It takes practice. Practice. and more practice. and learning how to breathe. but I believe it. I also like... More »
Laura
We have to sleep with open eyes; we must dream with our hands. --Octavio Paz
Laura
Arriving Again and Again Without Noticing I remember all the different kinds of years. Angry, or brokenhearted, or afraid. I remember feeling like that walking up the mountain along the dirt path to my broken... More »
Laura
I found this poem in an old issue of Ploughshares from 1998. Invocation You came to me first as dawn hauled up on ropes of apricot above the blackened wall of white pine. You came... More »
Laura
The seeds of all my seasons come together in a soup of something I could once taste but hold now in my mouth like water. They grow up out of themselves into a recipe... More »
Laura
Language---how it comes together or doesn't in the hunks of it my students hand me at the start of the year. what I can see in between the bad spelling and invented words and run-on... More »
Laura
A self is made, not given. It is a creative and active process of attending a life that must be heard, shaped, seen, said aloud into the world, finally enacted and woven into the lives... More »
Laura
I was once given advice by an Indian who was very much worried about my preoccupation with words. "You must learn to look at the world twice," he told me as I sat on the... More »
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