Morning Finds You Still Warm and Breathing

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Process, process, process, pro-cess. (I do hope you're getting all this down. It will be on the quiz.) Francesca and I dig into the tender, wet, smelly, underbelly of creation and poke at it until it squeals. (Which is how writing is made, children.) You have to have a special sort of courage (or dumbassery) to create anything real for yourself, much less create something real for other people. You have to be willing to puncture...you know what? This metaphor's getting too gross.

Let's pivot into love, similarly tender and unctuous. When you were a kid, what did you love doing more than anything? How did you play? Where do you get to play now? Did you know you're still allowed?

Francesca's Links: Insta Site Her Perfect Chap

Y'all should know how to find me by now.

Mentions:

Paragraph Planet

Dorianne Laux

Kim Addonizio: The Poet's Companion

Diane Suess

Alice Monroe

Vladimir Nabokov

Norman Mailer

Charles Bukowski

Gabriel García Márquez

Louise Erdrich

Yukio Mishima

Jack Gilbert

Stanchion: Jeff Bogle

(My first chapbook, Yellow Rose Effigy, is out now!)

Good people doing good things ---> INARA Cease Fire Today, MAP, Islamic Relief for Palestine, The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children's Fund

Demine the Ukraine, Legacy of War Foundation

Doctors without Borders, UNHCR, Food Not Bombs

Cheers y'all!

*kind reminder, all the nifty do gooders I link to, have no idea who I am and are NOT affiliated with me. I just think they're neat.

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