My Park Road Books reading yesterday was FUN FUN FUN. Very respectable turnout that included all my walking posse, many writing buddies, and even author Judy Goldman who is such a fantastic listener and reviewer of such things. It was a big honor and I think people really liked it. We wrote a poem together during the reading, everyone writing one line each and here it is below. That was the shennanigans part of the afternoon I had promised.
THIS IS WHAT I SAW YESTERDAY: IT MADE ME THINK
To call my mother, to giver a copy of the picture I had taken of my little one's smile
And I thought about "fleeting"
A dog barking at the leaf blower, ferosiously, as though his life depended on it.
A woman in the ugliest shirt I've ever seen, flapping bright-pink in the breeze
Seemed lost in the city or lost in thought...
How do the birds know to be silent when a predator is near?
Probably because they will hear them
They puff themselves up and fly past their fear
Up, up, up
Around the corner, up the stairs. Don't fall
Or not, just let go you might fly.
But before you go take off your clothes your skin your teeth
Hydrate and floss. You'll be glad you did.
I saw a player fall over 200 picks beyond his expected NFL Draft spot. It made m find out why.
I watched 200 people get excited over 6 students sharing what their school meant to them...they pulled out their checkbooks.
