I woke up this morning bright and early at 8 AM feeling (Dare I say it?) better! I’m not coughing, I don’t feel like my head is six feet underwater. I felt like singing. Instead, I’m going to be cautiously optimistic and try not to overdo things (I have a tendency to go into overdrive after I’ve been sick to catch up on things, which usually results in getting re-sicked.)
The sun was shining outside (although it’s about 30 outside) and although there’s been no poetry mail lately, I’m feeling cautiously optimistic about that too. I had a dream that I was carrying around four babies in my arms, showing them off to everyone.
Tonight, instead of watching Idol, I’ll be watching the Michigan primary…I’m on a politics kick lately.
Jeannine Hall Gailey served as the second Poet Laureate of Redmond, Washington and the author of Becoming the Villainess, She Returns to the Floating World, Unexplained Fevers, The Robot Scientist’s Daughter, and winner of the Moon City Press Book Prize and SFPA’s Elgin Award, Field Guide to the End of the World. Her latest, Flare, Corona from BOA Editions, was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award. She’s also the author of PR for Poets, a Guidebook to Publicity and Marketing. Her work has been featured on NPR’s The Writer’s Almanac, Verse Daily and The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror. Her poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Poetry, and JAMA.
