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About Me

I AM their mama.

Kathleen Forehand Fort

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My Interests

Giving advice to wayward teenagers.

Saving puppies and kittens www.humanecampbell.org

Thinking.

Words, words, words... I'm all about them words.

Laughing.

I'd like to meet:

People who lived in Monroe, NY (Orange County) in the 60s and 70s especially those on High Ridge Road.

People who live/lived in Herkimer, New York and love/loved it.

Tony Hoagland

Note:
I must know you through my kids OR
you must be a fellow CVCC student OR
you must be a friend from the past OR
you must have the Monroe/Herkimer connection
OR some other connection
before I will add you as a friend!

I had even forgotten how married love
is a territory more mysterious
the more it is explored, like one of those terrains
you read about, a garden in the desert
where you stoop to drink, never knowing
if your mouth will fill with water or sand.
~Linda Pastan

Music:

I'm really kind of loving Ani DiFranco right now... angry-girl poetic lyrics!

All Time Favorite CDs:
Pink Moon, Nick Drake
White Ladder, David Gray
X&Y, Cold Play

Books:

I just ordered many books -- at Poff's suggestion, two of the books I should read before I die: The Little Prince by Antoine de St.Exupery and Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya. And also (due to my own obsession) every book written by poet Tony Hoagland.

Heroes:

The guy in the boat with the oars, right?

My Blog

Now you will read April's poem -- GOOD for the soul!

Since you liked by beloved Tony so well (can't wait to hear him speak!), I thought I'd try some Sharon Olds on you (this is not our mother's garden): My Mother's Pansies by Sharon OldsAnd all that tim...
Posted by Drastic Cinnamon Platypus on Mon, 02 Apr 2007 06:22:00 PST

NOW you will read March's poem -- good for the soul!

A Color of the Sky by Tony HoaglandWindy today and I feel less than brilliant, driving over the hills from work. There are the dark parts on the road when you pass through clumps of...
Posted by Drastic Cinnamon Platypus on Sun, 04 Mar 2007 07:38:00 PST

Now you will read February's poem... GOOD for the soul

Variation on the Word Sleep by Margaret Atwood I would like to watch you sleeping, which may not happen.I would like to watch you, sleeping. I would like to sleep with you, to enter your sleep ...
Posted by Drastic Cinnamon Platypus on Thu, 01 Feb 2007 05:58:00 PST

NOW you will read January's poem -- Good for the Soul!

Poem written by Philip Larkin: I roll a cigarette, and light A spill at the stove. With a lungful of smoke I join you at the window that has no curtain; There we lean on the frame, and loo...
Posted by Drastic Cinnamon Platypus on Tue, 02 Jan 2007 10:04:00 PST

Now you will read December's POEM -- Good for the soul

OK folks... before I get scolded for my lax poem posting (even though I DO have a paper and essay to finish for lit!) here is the poem for December. Classic! (We like Frost, right Jake?) I...
Posted by Drastic Cinnamon Platypus on Mon, 04 Dec 2006 10:03:00 PST

Now you will read OCTOBER's poem -- good for the soul!

A tad bit late... but this one is good enough for October and November! Standing Deer by Jane HirschfieldAs the house of a personin age sometimes grows clutteredwith what istoo loved or too heavy to p...
Posted by Drastic Cinnamon Platypus on Tue, 24 Oct 2006 12:07:00 PST

Now you will read SEPTEMBER's poem... good for the soul!

#86 by John Berryman Our lives before hopelessly our mistake!-- We should have been together seething years, We should have been the tomb-bat hangs and hears Sounds inconceivable, been a new sn...
Posted by Drastic Cinnamon Platypus on Wed, 09 Aug 2006 06:41:00 PST

Now you will read APRIL's poem -- good for the soul!

Perspective by May Sarton Now I am coming toward you silently,Do not say anything. Stay as you are -Suspense between my love and your despair.Like a stone figure on a fountain, beThe center of a...
Posted by Drastic Cinnamon Platypus on Tue, 18 Apr 2006 05:24:00 PST

Monroe, NY (Orange County)

I grew up in small town Monroe, NY, in the 60s and 70s. When I was a teenager, I couldn't wait to get out ("nothing to do") -- but looking back, I realize that it was a great place to grow ...
Posted by Drastic Cinnamon Platypus on Sun, 29 Jan 2006 11:21:00 PST