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Ann Collins's avatar

"the egg shaped / moon" and "flowerlight"

Delicious words, Kortney!

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I'm slowly working my way through Marjorie Lotfi's class this month--it's so good! She is beautifully generous and I'm taking joy in filling my notebook with all 30 of her April lessons.

https://marjorielotfi.substack.com/?utm_source=global-search

I've also been writing a few micro-poems for each tiny season. Poem-snacks :-)

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Kortney Garrison's avatar

You know I'm all about the micro-poems! Thank you for the link to Marjorie Lotfi--she seems like a gem.

(I wasn't sure about the flowerlight....sun was shining into the camellia hedge and I could see the bird in the shadowy middle of the bush.)

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Melanie Bettinelli's avatar

I love your haiku collection. This month has been scattershot. I would like to gather all my haiku, but I didn't even write them all down where I can find them, so it will be a scavenger hunt.... It's been that kind of a month. I have been trying to copy poems and I started off the month strong, but somewhere in the middle it faltered. Easter does usually throw me off my rhythm.

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Gina Kimmel's avatar

Loved reading your haiku, Kortney. They are beautiful warm gusts of spring air.

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Kortney Garrison's avatar

Honored to have you reading, Gina!

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Abigail's avatar

The imagery is so strong. I love reading them together. They are all so good I can't pick a favorite, but I especially enjoy how something as small and specific as maple pollen becomes a common thread uniting people and places all over the city. Circles of plenty highlights the prodigal joy of spring. I think I'm going to have to follow suit and collect mine into a post as well because I have loved these Haiku collections from the poetry pie challenge.

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Kortney Garrison's avatar

I can't wait to read your collection, Abigail! I only noticed the maple trees this year because they are a major pollen source for bees early in the year in our valley.

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Jennifer Degani's avatar

I have read some poetry. And I enjoyed your poems. I have found that I enjoy writing short stories and the way that they can crystallize a moment, a decision, a point of change. Your poems do that with an instant: a bee on a flower, the moon in a tree. Yesterday I saw a Roadrunner with a lizard in its mouth. I can still see it and its movements- part of me would like to translate that to poetry.

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Jennifer Degani's avatar

Thanks! I hope you see some roadrunners. I never tire of seeing them. They are so fun. When I was in college I once saw three of them at the same time. I was walking by the church on my way to the gym and couldn’t help thinking that they were a trinity of roadrunners.

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Kortney Garrison's avatar

Oh wow! I've only seen a roadrunner a few times and that was many, many years ago. My kids have never seen one. We are traveling to the Southwest this summer, so we will keep an eye out!

Once over the river in the rainforest I saw a swallow grab a swallowtail butterfly out of the air. I'd like to translate that!

Short stories are magical--they cover so much ground so quickly. I've been reading Borges short stories to my kids for our read aloud. (I had to go listen to this snippet of an interview again and think you'll like it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJYoqCDKoT4&ab_channel=AndreaCirla )

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Kim Blanchard's avatar

Simply beautiful haiku! I loved reading them all together, like you said. What a picture they paint of a month!

I haven’t polished any poems this month but I have written a few, the same prompts I give my kids for their writing assignments, and that has been a joy. (I’ve been a longtime reader of poetry but only a recent writer. 💗)

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Kortney Garrison's avatar

I love love love that you are writing along with your kids. This is such a powerful practice. I had my co-op kids write a few haiku already, and next week am going to ask them to write a haiku in the voice of the character they are playing in Julius Caesar.

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