- April is National Poetry (Writing) Month
- napowrimo #1a: Magic
- napowrimo #1b: Amateur
- napowrimo #2a: Safety Dance
- napowrimo #29: News for Hosers
- napowrimo #2b: A Toast
- napowrimo #30: Humans & Humans
- napowrimo #3a: Grandmother
- napowrimo #3b: A Map of Now
- napowrimo #4a: Outside In
- napowrimo #4b: Dani on the Pavement
- napowrimo #5a: Lover
- napowrimo #5b: I Pay for Murder
- napowrimo #6a: Between Now and Then
- napowrimo #6b: Life’s Finest Moments
- napowrimo #7: Waking Moments
- napowrimo #8a: Yum
- napowrimo #8b: The Empty Set
- napowrimo #9a: How a Poem Gets Made
- napowrimo #9b: Ikh hob dikh azoyfil nokh gebenkt
- napowrimo #10a: Zayde
- napowrimo #10b: A Moment
- napowrimo #11: The Ends
- napowrimo #12a: Noncences
- napowrimo #12b: Welcome to Canada, You Stupid Bitch
- napowrimo #13: Poem Starting with a Line from Norman Dubie
- napowrimo #14: Breathing
- napowrimo #15: Badly Writing Poetry
- napowrimo #16a: acus pungere
- napowrimo #16b: Haiku for a Friend
- napowrimo #17: Home
- napowrimo #18: My Entire PhD
- napowrimo #19: Rememory
- napowrimo #20: Acute Puncture
- napowrimo #21: Respect the Taylor Series
- napowrimo #22: we
- napowrimo #23: Odysseus 2010
- napowrimo #24: High and Dry
- napowrimo #25: In the End
- napowrimo #26a: Sometimes You Do
- napowrimo #26b: Paternity
- napowrimo #27: An Acrostic
- napowrimo #28: I Know
My apartment is literally littered
with rubber bands for my jaw
pilates equipment
sharps and test strips
for the glucometer.
My web browser tabs multiply
with my daily food diary
medical entries about hypoglycemia
and my calendar: physio, pilates, doctor
repeat.
My mind is overfull of
attempts to control this body
scarred by East L.A. air
pummeled by a car
drained by unfeeling septuagenarians.
I try to get through the garbage
to enjoy the gems:
pilates endorphins
conversations with Andrew
mindfully relating to my body.
But my apartment is littered
with web browser tabs
rubber bands
appointments
and pain.
This is a great poem. The things that can say a lot about us and our lives are all right around us.
Wow, thanks dana!
Great use of language here — quite a number of surprising and very specific word choices. Thanks for sharing it.
Thanks. I enjoyed yours today too. The setting was so familiar emotionally and physically. Mmm, baseball … Actually I have something else to say but I’ll post it on your entry instead of mine!
Wow…very expressive and visual! Really liked this a lot.
I’ve often considered the dual personality of pilates equipment… the torturer and the opener of cages. Love your imagery here!