Category Archives: Poetry

Waking

Posted on August 23, 2011 by sputterpub

At the risk of repeating myself, I like living alone. As an only daughter I was the one in my family who had a single room. I spent so much time there, both parents tried to nag or shame me … Continue reading →

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Unraveling

Posted on August 19, 2011 by sputterpub

      Everyone I know is heroic. But we’ve all been placed in a mostly non-catastrophic scene; we lack crises in which we can work and shine. Look how well people, most people, step up when the chips are far down. … Continue reading →

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Posture

Posted on August 16, 2011 by sputterpub

This one is dedicated to those women who have tried marriage and not flourished in it, and who are not dead yet but are resistant to going there again. I can’t stay long – I’ll simply take a kiss if … Continue reading →

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But What is a Backwards Dessert?

Posted on August 12, 2011 by sputterpub

I like to think I discovered the fact that stressed is desserts spelled backwards, even though I now see cookbooks with that title. I first wrote a piece using the phrase around 1995. But let’s look at what it means. … Continue reading →

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Rebuttal

Posted on August 9, 2011 by sputterpub

As far back as I can remember, I wanted to write. I’ve always loved stories and verse, and I’ve been dabbling with them, or more, since I learned to read in 1956. And at least through adolescence, I operated beneath … Continue reading →

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A Particle in the Wave

Posted on August 5, 2011 by sputterpub

Our passages are similar to waves: insistent flow as seldom marking quirks as calibrated clouds. Each class behaves in pulses – curving average made of jerks – except a freak of custom may be seen, occasional and rational and rare, … Continue reading →

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Nostalgia

Posted on August 2, 2011 by sputterpub

Charles once conjectured that I’m the only person he knows who had a happy enough childhood that I can afford to remember how unhappy it was. As often as we walked when we were young, one would have thought us … Continue reading →

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Reception

Posted on July 29, 2011 by sputterpub

For 50 years I drove myself to get a spouse and raise my kids and earn my keep and exercise and write. That’s when I set my course: I lost no time – I traded sleep if necessary to attain … Continue reading →

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Characters

Posted on July 26, 2011 by sputterpub

It’s been said before and today it’s my turn. When you create fictional characters, they’re likely to make decisions and proceed in directions you didn’t anticipate when you started them. It isn’t that they act perversely – rather, you didn’t … Continue reading →

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Reveille

Posted on July 22, 2011 by sputterpub

I started this sonnet in 1998, saw it published in the online zine Cyclamens & Swords last August, and have just dallied with edits and played with line breaks, for here. I don’t know what breed of bird it was, … Continue reading →

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