object lessons

(Cataloging things so I remember what's happened.)

(How much I can do with what is simple, practical, and leftover: hand-me-down watercolors I've used in Italy, France, and England, the backs of cut-up prints.)

(I'm England-bound on Thursday again. It's been a good stay here. Lots of writing, both dissertation and poems. I guess the manuscript is just about done. Talk of a collaboration on a comic book. Time spent over tea and poems and little paintings. Shadowboxes. Long talks, long-distance. I'm glad to be going back to England--feels like home.)

(Reading tonight, Monday, at Magers & Quinn with Shana Youngdahl.)

(Nice to hear about you. Thank you for telling me who you are, a bit.)

(See you soon.)