Saturday, April 25, 2015

Five Things that Don't Suck, Visiting Artists Edition

1. poets
2. visual artists
3. mystery desserts
4. a clean house
5. really good conversation

Friday, April 24, 2015

Bonus Poem: Calypso

Well, hello again. The kind folk at Young Ravens Literary Review have seen fit to include my poem "Calypso" in their newest issue. Take a look. Read some other stuff, too, while you're there. It's April--National Poetry Month has less than a week to run!

Five Things that Don't Suck, Super Heroes Edition

1. capes
2. abs
3. disguises that might actually disguise someone*
4. justice
5. super strength and/or money

*if that's their jam. If they just want to be all openly super, I'm cool with that

Thursday, April 23, 2015

Five Things that Don't Suck, Random Edition

1. lunch with Julie*
2. getting a haircut
3. clean clothes
4. preparing for cookie day
5. being almost kinda sorta on top of things

*Hi, Julie!

Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Five Things that Don't Suck, Random Wednesday Edition

1. being less than two weeks away from having bees again*
2. surprises
3. baby otters
4. adult otters
5. flexible thinking

*originally scheduled to arrive this weekend, but I'll survive an extra week. Sniff, sniff.

Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Five Things that Don't Suck, Damp Tuesday Edition

1. bonus daffodils in the compost pile*
2. bagels with cream cheese
3. getting back into a routine
4. having ideas for art
5. having ideas for poems

*thanks, random squirrel!

Monday, April 20, 2015

Five Things that Don't Suck, Last Two Weeks of Classes Edition

1. when the first meeting of the day cancels and the morning is suddenly free until 9:30
2. the last day of student presentations*
3. being all caught up with grading by the end of the day
4. heavy rain
5. having only one more Monday alarm-based wake-up left after this one**

*although I do love them
**for a while

Sunday, April 19, 2015

Bonus: Three Poems that Don't Suck, Plus a Mini-Interview

I've had some people asking why I don't put links to my poems up here, or asking if I would, or asking if I do. So fine, throngs of fans. Here you go. Three poems, and an opportunity to find out how I feel about eels, right here at Prime Number . Hope you're all having a lovely Sunday, and thanks for reading.

Five Things that Don't Suck, Total Day Off Edition

1. having a completely free* day for the first time in weeks
2. reading
3. writing
4. doing a little bit of sketching, maybe
5. not thinking about that asterisk in #1

*well, there's an hour or two of grading I should do...but that's almost like having none