Rewrites: January 2025

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.

I don't know what to write this month. Usually, I attempt to be uplifting & encouraging. Each day the news hits in a new and painful way. I'm so angry, but my anger comes with great sadness. If we're lucky, we are offered a life and given the opportunity to either live with love & compassion or hate & greed. None of this is surprising. The unconscious human soul is a destructive force—constantly compensating, constantly othering. The empty spaces inside us are impossible to fill without connection & vitality. 

I've turned to haiku & poetry for solace. Keep doing your work for good. Keep writing. 
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Book of Haikus by Jack Kerouac

Publications: 

• 1 of my haiku was published in the The Haiku Foundation Haiku Dialogue, January 29th, 2025.

long story short falling star 

Attended:

• Camerawork in Poems with Jenny Johnson 

            

Rose by Li-Young Lee

​Books I Finished in This Month: 

• All Fours by Miranda July 
• Book of Haikus by Jack Kerouac 
• Rose by Li-Young Lee 
• Hatch by Marnie Richie 
• This One We Call Ours by Martha Silano 
• How to Not Be Afraid of Everything by Jane Wong 

Hatch by Marnie Richie

​Haiku: 

Who wd have guessed
     that a January moon 
Could be so orange!
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Jack Kerouac 

This One We Call Ours by Martha Silano

​Poem:

[i carry your heart with me(i carry it in]
by e.e. cummings

i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go,my dear;and whatever is done
by only me is your doing,my darling)
                                                      i fear
no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want
no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)
and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows
higher than soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)​

How To Not Be Afraid of Everything by Jane Wong

Quote:
"For last year's words belong to last year's language. And next year's words await another voice." - T.S. Eliot ​