Friday, April 4, 2014

I'm in Arcadia. It's Nice Here


Very happy to have this poem in the current issue of Arcadia Magazine. Please check out this fresh, handsome magazine out of Oklahoma City.

WHAT IS YOUR WRITING PROCESS?

I keep a map on the fridge
with heavy-item pickup zones on it,
and I cruise those neighborhoods
looking for wood. 

Most is junk, 
busted-up pressed-wood, 
moldy ply, 
slab-cut, quick-growth pine. 
You learn to spot such stuff a block away 
and roll on past. 

Then something pulls at you: 
clean lines, 
the way light reflects off the grain
of spruce or maple,

and you stop
and pop the trunk.

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