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Monday, December 3, 2012

Rose-Colored Glasses

The early morning sky was the color of these roses. It's unseasonably warm here, a thunderstorm predicted. So the current blue sky on a Blue Monday may turn black-and-white rose colored soon. Wouldn't that be something? To see thunderheads billow up as these roses?

I'd been in a season of rejections, poetry-wise, but got a recent acceptance from Redheaded Stepchild, which specializes in publishing poems that were rejected elsewhere. Thank goodness for them! So if you have been in a Rejected Slump, be sure to check them out!

And, yes, the editors are redheads! Yippee!

Meanwhile, I've also moved into a season of synchronicity, when everything fits together. In addition to Life of Pi and Simone Weil, I'm now also reading The Gift, poems by Hafiz translated by Daniel Ladinsky; they are hitting the spot.

Randomly yesterday, EIL poet Ron Hardy mentioned that he was reading The Gift. "By Lewis Hyde?" I asked, and was correct. This The Gift is about "gift culture," reciprocity, and so on, and on! I am so lucky to have met Ron in person after featuring him at Escape Into Life! And now to live in the same town. Oh, what a joyous Random Coinciday! Be sure to check out his feature sometime. It has a bow on it.
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6 comments:

  1. MaureenDecember 3, 2012 at 12:58 PM

    Ladinsky is one of my favorite translators.

    Thanks for the tip on Redheaded. And congrats on not getting rejected.

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  2. KathleenDecember 3, 2012 at 1:01 PM

    Thanks, Maureen. That made me giggle.

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  3. seana grahamDecember 4, 2012 at 1:08 PM

    I love the idea of the Redheaded Stepsister's project. And glad you got an acceptance there.

    A bit off topic, but I have been noticing over the last week or so, everywhere I look, I come across something about Tennessee. I don't know if I'm just noticing it more because one of the new guys at work hails from there or what exactly, but it's haunting me a bit. So I randomly clicked on Escape Into Life and what should there be but a Joe Wilkins poem, 'Memphis Closes Her Eyes'.

    Not that I mind being more aware of Tennessee, but it's all a bit disconcerting.

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  4. KathleenDecember 4, 2012 at 1:15 PM

    Seana, a Joe Wilkins book arrived today in the mail, making it a Random Coinciday for sure!

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  5. seana grahamDecember 4, 2012 at 1:22 PM

    Cool!

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  6. CathyDecember 7, 2012 at 10:19 PM

    The flowers are the same color as our sky, too--gray. I love it! Tomorrow, I think I'll live my whole day in black and white.

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