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NaPoWriMo Day Seven

Posted on April 7, 2017 by Mary Beth Frezon

How to soothe this inner shivering mess •
in the words of the wise: make art, breathe deep,
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NaPoWriMo, Day Six

Posted on April 6, 2017 by Mary Beth Frezon

how then to know rain? •
step out, look up, close your eyes — •
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NaPoWriMo Day Five

Posted on April 5, 2017 by Mary Beth Frezon

This was a stretch and I know, before the editing is done, there will be even more alternate ending couplets than I have already…. Clean out the closet, the drawer-fuls of things making room, space, to welcome in the new … Continue reading →

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NaPoWriMo Day Four

Posted on April 4, 2017 by Mary Beth Frezon

I did spend part of the day painting. Another part listening to American Gods. Part of it looking at the William Carlos Williams book of poems. Another part bothering the cats. I cleaned debris from the front seat of the … Continue reading →

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From William Carlos Williams

Posted on April 4, 2017 by Mary Beth Frezon

Footnote 151.22 re Sappho (From William Carlos Williams, Selected Poems, Edited by Robert Pinsky) This is a translation of Sappho’s Fragment 71. When it was published in Poems in Folio (1957), Williams included this note: I am 73 years old. … Continue reading →

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