Diary
Monday June 26. I lift the fern’s hair and spray her soil. Tuesday June 27. I keep going to where the water-cooler used to be. Wednesday June 28. I tried to throw the hole away. Thursday June 29. Partly-blue rose leaves in the garden surrounding the newly-blue house. Friday June 30. The crows’ convention caucuses in trees and atop telephone poles. Saturday July 1. Watering, watering; watering. Watering. Sunday July 2. In my dream, the silver people (pens) rode in the grooves of records and they played, each his own. (The male includes the female, the female the male.)
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Paula Bonnell’s poems have been published nationally (APR,The Hudson Review, Rattle and dozens more) and internationally(in Canada, England, India) as well as in four collections, including Airs & Voices, selected by poet and critic Mark Jarman for a Ciardi book publication prize. Find her at www.paulabonnell.net
Photo by Fabrizio Conti
