got it all away again

we drug the bushel tin out of the cellar
when we done up the beets last week there.

what a job. i warshed the counter all.
what a mess. the ones we grew

pickled up fine. only a few come up.
too dry, or something got at them.

we had to get more. the boughten beets
they were hard as anything. bad year

for sugar beets. see my nails
still stained all. your aunt, the same.

It’s not a haiku but it is short and takes as its prompt, One Deep Breath. It’s one breath if you say it fast. 😉

people are advised to stay off the roads and limit travel to essentials

winter storm watch in effect
winter storm warning
floods, flash freezing
frogs in petite parkas!!
locusts in tiny toques!!!

“It’s not that I don’t love men, I do. But sometimes I just wonder WTF? (And this doesn’t stand for World Taekwondo Federation – it stands for Where’re the females? I’m sure of it.)”Kelli Russell Agodon

and the program is up for the Reading the Postmodern, Canadian Literature Symposium in May. $40 a day. (And gender ratio incidentally, 19 females:17 males)

How Does a Poem…, a video interview with Billy Collins [ at BigThink via 37 Days] is worth each minute.

Every now and again at the Buffalo Poetics Listserv there’s a call to rally to raise funds for a lifetime writer who has no medical coverage or needs financial support in some way. It was nice to come across the woodcock fund, a support structure for relief for “when a writer faces an unexpected financial crisis, therefore, or becomes ill, his or her ability to finish a book is at serious risk. Unless help arrives.”

Postings elsewhere: an interview with Jenn Bredl that I did at Mipoesias is up. I don’t think I pointed to the Peter F Yacht club in December.

Did you notice two of the books from the last writers festival were short-listed for the Charles Taylor Prize for non-fiction?Funnily enough the announcement on their site is an image, rather than links that would make it easy for people to actually look up the nominees…John A: The Man who Made Us and The Film Club among others.