• Liz commented on the post, zone 9 months ago

    I’m not quite in it, but hope to be. There’s some serious work to be done, but I’m dancing around the edges of it, false starts, cups of coffee. I need to get in the zone so that the next few hours turn fluid and […]

  • Liz commented on the post, turbine 10 months, 1 week ago

    Oh this is a lovely word. Reminds me of turbinado sugar. Are those two related? Sugar can push me through the air like a jet turbine, certainly. Sugar is a screaming engine, and I’m its willing passenger. Sugar […]

  • Liz wrote about the word plans 1 year, 3 months ago

    I’ve laid them. I’ve seen them go astray. Mice, men, etc. I’ve got plans for tonight involving poker and a couple of cocktails. I’ve got plans involving luck. Let’s see how that works out. I had plans today — some of them got left back at one fork in the path or other. Guess that’s [...]

  • Liz wrote about the word hinge 1 year, 3 months ago

    Sandy and I (and Deborah?) talked about the notion of poem as window, poem as door, and then I think we talked about the idea of a poem having a hinge. THat was cool. I love this word. The hinge is the thing that makes the turning possible, everything hinges on something else very cool.