Medusa's Head

Deciding which poetry books to take with me to Charleston for 6 months while I pack up the rest for storage. I think I'm going to skip at least a few 12x12 months, and those books I'd planned to read and give away are stored to donate another day. On the bright side I think I've got enough to read, and maybe I'll even write :) Trying to find one last book, a chapbook by my friend Charlie about distance between lovers, the physical kind, to read when I'm lonely.

Imagine a picture of empty cardboard boxes and a calendar with only 4 weeks left and a big circle in red sharpie around April 26. Yep, I'm moving. My poem this whole month, National Poetry Month, would read like the thought bubbles in a Cathy cartoon. AGH! AGH!!! AGH!!!! See you in May, with more giveaways, picking back up with 12x12, and some mopey postcards.

Again, I have to mention this project is from Dana Guthrie Martin at My Gorgeous Somewhere if you want to do it too! The third month's challenge? To read a book written by a poet who has a movie made about them. As with last month, I have several of these books on my shelf already: Aurthur Rimbaud, Sylvia Plath, and Dorothy Parker. I've read Plath a number of times, and would rather read Parker, I think.

Photo by H. Rotgers. Poem excerpt by Meghan Brinson from "How She's Changed" Trying to come up with something uplifting for March, brrr.

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