Signs of life

What's growing around us? 

Here, this week:

May 13, 2020
Never heard of Nigellas
They made my Full Belly Farm bouquet
I buy flowers every other week
Different from Trader Joe's generic lovelies

May 22, 2020
Zing! and I strolled in Oak Park
carrying chocolate croissants from Faria Bakery
You stand on the sidewalk,  say your number
and wait to be served

May 23, 2020
If I draw them will they grow?
Mint is on my north-facing balcony
oregano wants more sun

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Farm in a box

Dear Family and Friends,

I've been learning about watercolor in an online class with Este MacLeod. I used to just splash paint onto my drawings, but now I can be more purposeful if I want. Here is one of the beets in today's CSA box, which I get every Wednesday afternoon. The pickup point is someone's front porch in East Sacramento. Whenever I go there's rarely anyone else around -- just a stack of boxes and some flowers in a bucket. I transfer everything from my box to a bag, sign my name. and leave. I love getting to know what's fresh and growing nearby. Today it was beets, onions, little potatoes, chard,  bitter greens and strawberries. They come from Full Belly Farm. 

Also, don't you love that today is May 20, 2020?
Love,

k

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Don’t Read Poetry

Don't Read Poetry: A Book About How to Read Poems by Stephanie Burt
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I read this once and then I read it again. It’s a library book; the library has stopped taking books back for now, due to Covid-19, so after it had been sitting on my table for awhile I decided to read it a second time. The first time I thought it was disjointed, but now the pieces begin to come together. I’m glad to know Stephanie Burt. She’s an influential poet-critic-professor but she’s not writing from a high place. She often writes in first person, and she addresses the reader directly. She doesn’t offer complete poems with commentary. Rather, she shows ways poems can please (6 categories— feeling, character, technique, difficulty, wisdom, community) and offers pieces of poems from many eras as examples. The book is a guide and invitation to finding poems you like, with assurance that the more you know of poetry the more you will like and sometimes love.


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