“Bradley”
Richard once commented that he was surprised most of my poems are fiction-based. Here is one that is about an actual experience.
memory
Time Traveling into a Well-Kept Room
I remember feeling strange, to be in the town but not of the town. I came across Shaughnessy’s Our Andromeda while quietly stacking inventory for Princeton students in need of textbooks. She was a local poet, working with the Princeton MFA’s Emerging Writers series and teaching at Rutgers. Now, returning back to the east coast, to New Jersey, to Newark–it seemed like the perfect time to read Shaughnessy’s newest poetry book, So Much Synth, during the five hour flight from Los Angeles.
Poem: “Friday The 13th” – Hawaii Hitchhiking
On Friday the 13th I had a lucky day hitchhiking. A family picked me up in Lihue Kaua’i Hawaii. They gave me $10 for the bus. I left them this poem. Mahalo!
“Couple #4”
I’m in Hawaii so I don’t exactly feel like updating Typewriter Poetry every day 🙂 But because it’s raining, here’s a poem from April 4th.
“INVISIBLE STAINS”
Originally Posted: October 10th, 2011Updated: January 4th, 2020prompt: “Chocolate Milk :0)” It’s kind of funny that this one is a little sad, seeing as the prompt was from my childhood best friend…a friendship I have happy memories of
“MAGIC” (“TO AYUMI’S DAUGHTER”)
Originally Posted: June 23rd, 2011Updated: January 4th, 2020prompt: “convincing my child that being able to read is awesome”
“MINDFUL OF HOME”
Originally Posted: June 15th, 2011Updated: July 7th, 2020prompt: “I have traveled the earth with only a slight, compact bag at my shoulders that held a camera, enough clothes for tomorrow. I have dwelled and dined in cities where a constant flow of human traffic streaks by, as seen through a window. I have wandered endless …
“SHE IS YOU (AND ME)”
Originally Posted: March 30th, 2011Updated: January 4th, 2020prompt: “still loving someone youve lost.”
“AD NAUSEAM”
prompt: “A poem about nostalgia’s influence on the taste and feeling of memory (yes taste!)”