I found this video by way of my friend Alex. A teacher in Mexico sings to her young students to distract them from the gunfire outside of their window. See more here.
Archive for May, 2011
songs not bullets
Posted in Uncategorized on May 30, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Love letters
Posted in Uncategorized on May 30, 2011 | 5 Comments »
I bought a box of lover letters, most of them unread, at a roadside flea market. They’re from the late 1960s. A man, married with kids, is writing to a woman whose affections he’s trying to win. Clearly, they’ve spent time together, but she will not marry him. In some of the letters, there are [...]
i thought about a poem a day
Posted in Uncategorized on May 10, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I thought about this idea, this idea that if I wrote one poem a day for the rest of my life I could cover a room with them, I could string these poems of mine on clothes lines and throw them in the air letting them fall like leaves in autumn, if I wrote one [...]
