Politics & Poetry

I know we're all ready to vote and be done with it, but until then, you can check out the poetry of politics over at Poetry Friends. Today you'll find me wondering why "On Becoming President, She Never Answers the Phone."

Flashes and Poems and Novels, Oh My

The September Flashathon was quite successful and a lot of fun. I wrote 17 new flashes, which is probably more than I've written in the past two years combined. Some of them are already out there seeking homes.

Today I finished my 19th round of 30 poems in 30 days!

Titles:

1. This Life

2. Disclosure of Heaven

3. The Way to Take Paris

4. Reaching Montmorency

5. Thirst

6. The Impermanence of Furniture

7. Harbinger

8. Osteoporosis

9. Twilight at Farington Manor

10. Lessons in Faith

11. Momentary Hypnosis

12. To the Penguin Third from the Left

13. Night at the Opera

14. The Ranch Hands Take Another Gate

15. Concordance

16. We Were Determined

17. Lookout on Perdition Ridge

18. Balloon Man

19. Serenade to Horsetail Falls

20. When Your Last Name is Capulet

21. On Becoming President, She Never Answers the Phone

22. haiku

23. Nearly Halloween Night

24. It Takes the Moon for This

25. An Extravagance

26. They Were Delicious

27. Ascent of the Last Passenger Pigeon

28. Posing the Dead

29. The Art of Burning

30. Odysseus in the Act of Leaving

I'll go back in December for round 20, but November is all about the novel. That's right, I'm doing NaNoWriMo again this year. Care to join me?

Maryhill and Stonehenge in the Gorge

Last month we took up a trip up the Columbia River Gorge to visit Maryhill Museum of Art and see the Andy Warhol collection currently on exhibit.

An absolutely gorgeous early Fall day in the Gorge.

Stonehenge seems oddly appropriate here. A full-scale replica built to commemorate the local men who died in WWI.

Art inspires more art. The girls were quite taken with the museum's collection of furniture and objects from Queen Marie of Roumania. I loved the Andy Warhol pieces, particularly a series of Western themed paintings he created near the end of his life. We all got a huge kick out of the sculpture garden outside, trying to figure out what various pieces meant to us as well as what the artist intended.

There was a whole room for kids to play, read, and create in. Princesses seemed to be the theme of the day.

Kate and her masterpiece.

Emma and her masterpiece.

damselfly press

Yep, that's me losing sleep in the new issue of damselfly.

Autumn Sky Poetry

Isn't this a beautiful zine? It's always a pleasure to read. Now it's a pleasure to be included: Autumnal Exposé