I took the longest writing Jenith Charpentier's poem because I think she's such a swell poet. I re-read her chapbook for inspiration and noticed that the poem August Woman had delicious words ending every line. So I took all of the end-line-words and put them in backward order to start the lines of the poem I would write for her. August and September have always been my favorite months - the last slow punch of summer, the first flirt of fall, and here we find ourselves now, in August turning into September. So here's a first draft of September Woman, for Jenith. Thanks, Jenith.

A Poem for Cory

A Poem for Cory by Ginna Funk Wallace
A poem about cigars!

Made for this fundraiser.

Rough Draft for Paul

Hey, Paul.

Tell me what it’s like to be a house.

To have a ten bedroom heart,

ten beds per room,

room for all, tell me what it’s like

to be a hallway

lined with couches, hung

with art, a kitchen

with food for days, we’re talking

good, local, farmer’s market cheese and bread

beets like garnets and snapping peas,

tell me please, what it’s like

to wear a wraparound porch smile

on your face every day.

While others wear masks you use joy

like the lightest of make-ups, just a little

brush here and there, rubbing off

on all your kisses, like whitewashing

your picket fence, your fence with no gate

so it can never, ever be closed.

Tell me what it’s like to be water.

To be fluid and unabashedly changing,

to be change as a constant, to be constant

as an ocean, to be really

worth your salt, to exist in all places at once

in all your states, to be the color of truth,

not of sadness but still to be there

when we cry, to give birth

to everyone you love.

Tell me what it’s like to be naked:

no costumes, no barriers,

no defenses, no lies, to be bare,

to be open, an unpainted house,

water in its vapor state, unadorned,

revealing and revealed, to exist

in your most pure form, to be free

to dance on a rooftop at sunset,

to be truthful,

truly, tell me

so I can learn to be that, too.

I made a videopome!

I wrote a poem, and then I made a video for it.  I hope you enjoy this little two-minute project!  It's a poem I wrote during this past April's 30/30 NaPoWriMo.

SIGNAL BOOST

I've been having a rather rough time of it financially due to having to leave my previous life.  In order to start a new one, I'm holding a fundraiser.  But I'm not begging, I'm making deals, and you get to select what sort of deal you'd like!

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/teaching-english-in-taiwan/x/4135053

Please consider helping me out, or at the very least, sharing this link with your friends.

Thanks a mint!