August 3, 2010
Blender
We spin a terrible speed. We stutter
and stop. Arms outstretched in silver
horizon lines. The world curves
and dips behind us. We stop again.
Our whirring pace pushes
everything away from our center.
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We finally have a new blender, after months without one, so for the past few days I’ve been blending my heart out. So, the blender has been on my mind. I had hoped to write more object poems, but I just haven’t found the time, now that I’m back to work. More tomorrow, once the migraine goes away.
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August 3, 2010
I am participating in the August Poetry Postcard Challenge this month. Each day, I send a new postcard with a poem on the back to a recipient on the group list. We began on July 27, but I am posting these a few days late, so that my pen pal can see them first. Enjoy!
At the Hotel Breakfast Bar
We don’t eat when we’re not hungry. We eat
when we are full. We eat until
there’s nothing left, except
ghosts of scrambled eggs and fluorescent
Lucky Charms dust. We lick the cooling
waffle griddle, raid the toaster’s crumb tray.
We steal oatmeal packets, screw the hot water.
Still not hungry and not entirely satisfied,
we finally eye each other, our plump
legs and soft bellies. We are still
a bit too reserved to introduce ourselves
as we clutch our plastic knives and saw.
Sent July 28
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August 3, 2010
After focusing on sensory awareness, I will be turning the focus towards personal awareness and mindfulness.
For today’s exercise, I would like to create a “Postcard from my Found Present.” This exercise is inspired, in large part, by Gertrude Stein’s Tender Buttons. In this book, Stein wrote brief prose poems about the objects, foods, and rooms of her life in Paris. These were largely imagistic and they created a larger picture of her domestic life. I am especially fond of the “Objects” section, which elevated the everyday object into the extraordinary.
In my “Postcard from my Found Present”, I will pick an object from my life and create a postcard out of it. While I would prefer this to be a poem, it can be created any medium.
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