sonnets at 4 a.m.: "Won't you stop and remember me, at any convenient time..."

Tuesday, June 19, 2007

"Won't you stop and remember me, at any convenient time..."

Yes, I am still here. Sunday I made the mistake--or rather, performed the necessary task--of mowing the lawn. Two hours of pushing a mower in the 80-plus degree sun did me in for the rest of Fathers' Day. Yesterday, I was in meetings from 8 A.M. until 8:00 P.M.

So "Sonnets at 4 A.M." has, for the moment, become "Ennui at 6 A.M."

I will get back on top of things, given a day or-so.

2 Comments:

Talia said...: Mowing the lawn on Father's Day? That should be illegal! And having to push the mower? I know how much hard work that is. I hope you've recovered.; 10:25 AM
Susan Och said...: I'd take 2 hours of mowing over 12 hours of meetings anyday.; 2:57 PM

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I am a writer who lives and works in West Michigan. I am a graduate of Albion College, the University of Michigan Law School, and the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. I have published three full-length collections of poetry: Holding Down the Earth (Sky Books, 1995), A Path Between Houses (University of Wisconsin Press, 2000) which won the Brittingham Prize, and Figured Dark (University of Arkansas Press, 2007), which won the University of Arkansas Press Poetry Series. I have also published three chapbooks: Eros, Psyche and the Death of Narrative (Candle Creek Press, 2006), The Afterlight (WVU-Legal Studies Forum, 2006), and The Divisible Field ( WVU-Legal Studies Forum, 2008), and have completed a fourth manuscript, Tropical Landscape with Ten Hummingbirds. I am working on a novel. My work has received a Pushcart Prize, the Mississippi Review Prize, the Paumanok Poetry Prize, the Greensboro Review Literary Award in Poetry, and the Arts & Letters Prize. I was a Bread Loaf Fellow in 2002. When not writing, I work full-time as corporation counsel for a local government and also teach part-time in the English Department at Hope College in Holland, Michigan.

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sonnets at 4 a.m.

Tuesday, June 19, 2007

"Won't you stop and remember me, at any convenient time..."

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