Post Insurrection Poem

 

a little at sea
is me
as I sit
in this gorgeous
sonoma day—
wittering birds
sun shining trees
slight breeze—
coming down
slowly from
hard days
past.
worrying—a loose noose
‘round my neck
while letting in
nature’s gift
slow    ly
oh.
the sea
is me.

 

New Work in Process: Staged lyric poem/Play

Surprise surprise! Rewriting a staged lyric poem/play I wrote over 15 years ago: Drowning in the Same Sea: Thirteen Conversations in the Hereafter with Emily Dickinson and Saint Francis.

Here is my process over 2 weeks reworking 1 paragraph. All changes have to work in moment of conversation and with the rhythm and thru line of the play. whew!! I won’t really know until I have finished the whole play and sat with it.