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A Poem for a Thursday #201
Maggie Dietz is an American poet who has served as assistant poetry editor for Slate and as director of the Favorite Poem Project. She has taught at Boston University and the University of Massachusetts-Lowell. According to the Poetry Foundation “When reading Dietz’s poems, one can often sense an aperture widening or constricting as she deftly engages the movement of light and shadow across natural and human cycles.” Show's over, folks. And didn't October do A bang-up job? Crisp breezes, full-throated cries Of migrating geese, low-floating coral moon. Nothing left but fool's gold in the trees. Did I love it enought, the full-throttle foliage, While it lasted? Was I dazzled? The…
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An Autumn Walk
This is likely to be a short post because the keyboard on my laptop is giving me problems. I have to mash several keys with ridiculous amounts of force to get them to work. I’ve tried various ways to fix them but I think it might be time for a new laptop. I’m not very pleased about that because there are lots of ways I would rather spend money but since I am addicted to putting my random thoughts on the internet I suppose I will have to cave in and buy one. I spent quite a while today searching for the best laptop deals and then making my husband…





