How I spent my Wednesday

I spent the day digesting yesterday’s conquest. The book. About Reimagining. I felt full. I thought I might burp tonight. (Lack of humor caused by having too many teen-agers hanging around the house, playing various instruments at volumes even too loud for me!) I was planning to jot down ideas about the book’s main emphasis and make some helpful specific comments, but that will have to wait. Maybe it was the tacos or maybe it was the pulsating walls of my office, which is situated next to “the music studio.” Instead I did a google search which I’ve done on many previous occasions, but this time it came up with a much longer, much more complete list of what I’ve been looking for for a long time.

Jump back 20 plus years. As a lit major in college I listen to a poet and buy one of his first books. I love the works within and read them often. Then sometime around the time kids arrived I lost the book. I search for it occasionally. And more recently—the past two or three years—I look on the internet for his stuff. Out of print. Not much available. But tonight I must have done something different. Or maybe it’s just the explosion of stuff on the web. But I found many of my old poems on three or four different web sites, for FREE. (On a somber note, the book which I lost was listed on e-bay with a $104.00 bid. YIKES.)

So I’ve spent, yea invested, my evening reading poetry to the thump of a bass drum beat and screaming guitars. Steve Turner was my find. I’ll let you sample and see what you think. Enjoy.

WAIT
These are
the good
old days.
Just wait
and see
-Steve Turner

He's got the brevity thing mastered. I can usually read his poems in a single sitting.