Quotables: #Poetry #TheRiver #Spring
On the other side of the river / there is a flame / a flame / burning May burning August . . . .
a poet looks to her / a farmer looks to her / a Dialectical Materialist looks to her / she is on the other side of the river, burning….
“The Other Side of the River” by Xi Chaun
* Photo credit: my son, 16, a young man with an eye for hidden treasures.
Quotables: Crank It Out.
In the beginning, when there are zero pages, you have to cheer yourself into cranking stuff out, even if it later lands on the cutting room floor. Each page takes you somewhere you need to travel before you can land in the next spot.
~ Mary Karr, The Art of Memoir