Rewrites: April 2024

Each month I post an update called Rewrites on what I'm up to and content I would like to share with you. Most of the links on this post are informational, but a few are affiliate links to help maintain this website.

Publications: 

• 1 of my haiku was published in Otoroshi Journal, Volume 3, Issue 2, Autumn/Winter 2024.

glass eye
grandma watches over me
​after the cremation

• 1 of my haiku received 3rd Honorable Mention is the 2024 Sharpening the Green Pencil Haiku Contest. 

wishing
there was a duolingo--
morning birdsong 

• 1 of my haiku was published in Kingfisher #9. 

late anyway--
two more angels 
in the snow

• 1 of my haiku was published in the The Haiku Foundation Haiku Dialogue, April 24th, 2024.

after the flood...
the highway 
to nowhere                  
                 

Eagle Harbor Maintenance Facility, Bainbridge Island, Washington.

Books I Finished in This Month: 
My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies  by Resmaa Menakem 
Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: 50 Poems for 50 Years by Joy Harjo
Writer in a Life Vest: Essays from the Salish Sea by Iris Graville 

Attended:

• I did not attend any writing or reading events this month.  ​

Eagle Harbor, Bainbridge Island, Washington.

​Haiku: 

how irritating!
the wild geese freely
call their friends

​Issa

Poem: 

Fire and Ice
by Robert Frost 

Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.

Writer in a Life Vest: Essays From the Salish Sea by Iris Graville

Encouragement: 
In difficult times, turn to writing. It will show up for you again and again. 

Quote:
"You don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it." - Octavia E. Butler