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      • dayofDH
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Corona Diary: Spine Poetry

SIP Day 48, wearing a grey tank and white jeans, writing while sitting at the desk in my home office; 89 degrees outside today.

I recently saw a colleague publishing “spine poetry” made up of book titles. I like a poetry challenge so I set my hand at creating some poetry. This was my first pass:

stack of books with text of poem
The Journey Home

Becoming wise about this life;
Extraordinary Bodies in and out of the garden,
Close to the bone; crossing to safety
The other side of paradise

The next poem I wanted to be about the pandemic, with a nod to John Snow who first created the cholera map of London, which taught us so much about the spread of infectious disease:

Stack of books with spines facing out
Ghost Map

Before, during, after
the year with no pants:

The monster at our door;
Changes in the land;
A room of ones own in exile (and other stories).
The body in pain; dead certainties
Homesick prisoners of the American dream.

How much is enough?
Here comes everybody.
May 7, 2020
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Hi there friend, and welcome to my blog. I started writing on the internet two decades ago. Since then I've started and finished a PhD program, left the Mormon church and became a Quaker, got divorced, remarried, found full-time work in academia, took up rock climbing and outrigger canoeing, and traveled across the globe (China! Belgium! Italy! Chicago! Montana! Portland! Gettysburg! and oh-so-many points in-between). This blog is eclectic and random--it has poetry and cooking and books. And cats. And flowers. And the ocean (my ocean). But in that sense it's a good reflection of me and my wide-ranging, far-reaching, magpie curiosity.

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