I'm writing 30 Poems in 30 Days
I'm writing 30 Poems in 30 Days
(Special Edition Newsletter)
(Seen on the car in front of us… how fitting. Photo courtesy of author. 2022)
I ate a sweet potato at 8.5 months pregnant. So, in addition to generally rolling around like a beached, Cushingoid whale, I now contain enough hot air to simultaneously lift me up and fart me off into the stratosphere. I didn’t realize what it was at first, of course, believing the gaseous pressure to be the baby’s kicks or a new onset of contractions. However, I soon discovered that release could be obtained, but only by leaning at specific angles- 45 degrees to the left, 39 degrees to the right, and 23 degrees forward, and no further. Leaning backward only compresses what’s become of my very redundant sigmoid colon, a no-flow, no-go state. My poor wife has suffered enough, with my wild flopping around in bed at night, that this herbaceous flatus of the tuberous only adds insult to injury.
Good morning! The holidays are coming up, so I think that today is the last day that anyone will do anything ostensibly related to work until 2023. We’re watching the news about the winter storms and the travel delays, and so glad we are not traveling this year. Stay safe and warm to those of you who are traveling, and I hope you get to your loved ones to spend quality time together.
With the cold weather (it’s 20 degrees here in Atlanta, colder than the Northeast right now, but this weather will get there by tomorrow!) and the ‘low-pressure’ system, people are telling me I’m going to go into labor soon. So I’m sending this out today. I was ‘accepted’ to do 30/30 for Tupelo Press, where I will write a poem every day for 30 days in January. It will be published in draft form on their website, where you can read it daily. Yes, I did pick that month for a reason. I thought it would be a challenge. 30/30 helps raise money to keep small presses like Tupelo Press in business.
You can donate here: 30/30
As a special offer for my Substack subscribers, the first 20 donors will receive a chapbook of the collected poems (summer 2023), plus other goodies.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!
You’ll still get the usual monthly newsletter on January 1st. Unless I’m in labor. But there’s a lot more in store for 2023… I’m taking a certificate course at Harvard, I’m signing a contract for a new job, still working on the books I’m writing. Stay tuned!