Spring invites purpose. What appears today will not appear tomorrow-elemental sense of order: fog, sleet, rain, wind, freeze, thaw, gain, loss, life, death, night, day-elemental sense of disorder: Big game hunters stalk the tiger, raise their rifles, fire, miss, aim, fire again. The tiger vanishes into the undergrowth. The hunters lower their long barrels. I am a part of the ooze humanity makes. I walked more today than yesterday. A heavy frost will fall after midnight.
May 19-25, 2024: A Dynamic Writing Workshop: THE LAKE EDEN WRITING WEEK- with Nickole Brown, Allan Wolf, James Navé, and special guests: www.jamessnave.com.
BACKGROUND NOTES ON 100 DAYS: Poems After Cancer
Twelve years ago, celebrating Poetry Month beginning April 1, I wrote 100 poems in the 100 days following my surgery on March 30. Last May 2023, 3: A Taos Press published the poems in a beautiful book titled 100 Days: Poems After Cancer: 3taospress.com/authors/james-.... In the spirit of poetry, I'm revisiting this journey by reading one poem daily from “100 Days” over the next 100 days, concluding on July 9, 2024. I hope you enjoy the poems.