It’s a beautiful brilliant blue day outside after several days of overcast chilliness. I like the Easter story, which always somehow also reminds me of Persephone, emerging from the Underworld to bring spring to the above-ground. The sunshine, the flowers blooming, and my birthday coming up: it does feel a little like we are emerging from something, doesn’t it, every April?
Yesterday we took my folks to the San Diego Zoo’s Wild Animal park. We got to see a six-week-old cheetah. You just have to love baby cheetah cubs. And it’s really hard to be depressed looking at meerkats. Yes, I should have stayed with my zoological interests and become a zoo biologist, I sometimes think. There were also many great egrets building nests in the trees around the park, zooming overhead.
Also, I was able to write a couple of poetry fragments – beginnings and bits of poems – that I felt happy with. I seem to be writing longer poems lately, a bit at a time.
Anyway, here’s wishing you at least one chocolate Easter bunny and a bright pink bunch of rununculus. (Marshmallow peeps half-price tomorrow!)
Thanks for all your well-wishes! I finally started to feel better yesterday. The 80-degrees-and-blue-sky-sunshine weather probably didn’t hurt. I had a job interview at U of Washington. Then Glenn took me out to lunch, and we took a walk underneath blooming apple and cherry trees. I had a profound sense of gratefullness, inner peace, happiness, what have you. The opposite of angst or mourning. I was happy to be out of bed, in the sun, with the spring all around. Happy to be with Glenn (it’s almost thirteen years now!) Happy for the chance to live my life. I still don’t have a place to live in a month, or a job yet. But I don’t know. I feel peaceful about everything.
Congratulate Kelli for her big win at The Atlantic!
Getting ready for the trip to Chicago next week to read with the Bookslut reading series. this little book
sure has kept me busy. If you live there and want to get together for coffee or anything, drop me a line.
Looking at a new phase of life. I’ve graduated, I’m (fairly) healthy, I’m ready to work again, bring home a (steady, non-freelance) paycheck, do something with my head and hands besides classwork. I’m sending out my second book, and people seem to like the poems. Two more acceptances this week from my Japanese-folk-tale sequence.
Happy Easter weekend. I’m going to dye some eggs and eat a bunny cookie. Wow, this post is too happy. It almost doesn’t sound like a poet lives here! LOL.
