Two kinds of pretense: What you pretend to be to yourself alone in your soul What you pretend to be to others, AKA virtue signaling I put down ‘virtue signalling” and I am unsure why. I guess I equate it with hypocrisy both large and small. I am reading a very powerful and…
I am sometimes undone by minor celebrity, not mine , but rather someone else’s. For example, I am part of a group that uses Ada Limon’s poetry as prompts to spark our own poetry. Why her poetry? There was similar hero worship for Mary Oliver of late. I get fed up with knowing that there…
Sometimes Your Future Is a Thing Imagine your future into the certainty of sunup, dawning inevitably. One of the ways to ‘divine’ this future (as my wise daughter would say) is to ‘make and make and make.’ I make poems to help others see their own futurity I trust this is one that poems and…