Today I have Been Wishing I Was Other People

Posted on May 16, 2007
Filed Under Birds, Blogging, Reading, Writing |

like Steve, who writes Riley Dog, probably the best blog ever because it really isn’t a blog. Or David Wojahn, who has written a smart essay on Bob Dylan & the prospects for American political Poetry in The Writer’s Chronicle. (Not available online, but worth the price of a subscription.) I wouldn’t have minded being that American Redstart I saw in the pine tree this morning, either, but that’s another kind of wishing.

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2 Responses to “Today I have Been Wishing I Was Other People”

  1. steve on May 16th, 2007 9:27 pm

    happy trails

  2. Peter on May 17th, 2007 4:23 pm

    REDSTART

    I wish I could drive to Wisconsin
    all the way from the desert
    trillium in the woods and there’s
    a separate gray for each place
    the light of the woods is not
    I know you know the sea light
    the middle of the first week without
    frost the survivors are not the same
    the hepatica staggers the trees I
    planted as promised don’t have
    blossoms yet the first leaves lisp
    poetically that knife in the back
    of the forgotten comes back up
    from the ground in a green rush.