Here’s to finding a remote-controlled racecar on every public park bench this weekend.
A Lesson in the Wheelhouse
This is fine. It’s really fine, in fact.
I am not, contrary to popular opinion, a people person.
I write what makes me comfortable and sometimes what makes me squirm. Or I just sit on one end of the picnic bench.
Productive Spaces: A Canalside Park
I came across this poem while on a recent walk, and if there’s one thing I like more than walks, it might be surprise poetry in the countryside. It also came as a surprise that my Dutch is progressing well enough for me to read it. Thank you to Hans Ridden, and thank you to the person who took her walk with a piece of laminated paper, a metal stick and a sledgehammer.
Then I sat on these chairs and watched a man fish.
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Important Announcement: Tomorrow is a Writing Day (at the park)
No long hot shower unless it’s spent reciting poetry. No breakfast but a scant piece of something and lots of black coffee so that my stomach rumbles, suffering just slightly. No hello to my neighbors or their children or their cats as I slam the front door and march my mission to the train station. No smiles on the sidewalk. No conversations in the second class car. Tomorrow is a writing day, which is to say my calendar is full. Meetings from dawn until dusk and then some. Tomorrow is a writing day, and even if I had a cell phone I wouldn’t answer it.
christine PS stocke 