February 2008 Archives
Favorite Lines of the Day
No one should have eyes like that:
asterated, pale polished blue. Deceptive
like a cabochon lapis: slick and shining
to camouflage a Mohs deficiency.
Current Inspirations
I’m working on a series about the loss of a child. I’ve got several finished, but I’m starting to hit a wall.
I’m also working a poem about a relationship at a sudden and painful end. You’ve heard of a person with bottomless eyes? Well, what happens when you finally hit bottom?
A third currently in the works is about the temptations faced when a woman first looks into a particular set of blue eyes, using the running metaphors of gemstones and religious over tones of temptation. I’m hoping to allude to “Sympathy for the Devil” and “Personal Jesus” if possible.
The last project on my poetic list this week is tentatively titled “Touch.” Sitting across the room from a love you cannot have, all you can think of a moment’s touch.
Yes, yes. Sappy love poems and themes that have been beaten to pulp. It’s what I feel like writing today.
