whales, woodman’s, wilco
Nathan and Jessie and I spent the morning on a whale watch with Grammy and Kevin, had lunch at the place that says it invented fried clams, and– rather than dinner– had something better than dinner: a rock show at the Lowell Spinners field, with K and W (friends), and with Conor Oberst, whose work I still love, and Wilco, whose new record is just fine. We are having a summer!
During the brief interval of inaction at home this afternoon Nathan lay down in a dark room on a “beach” made of pillows and told me, and then told Jessie and Grammy, all about the African hawk seagull, whose friends are regular seagulls, but who is different from the regular seagull species: the African hawk seagull is purple and orange, has a light in the tail like a firefly, eats blowfish which it finds by diving into blowfish schools, and lives on the moon. I hope this sort of imagination persists into adulthood. Or else I hope for something very like it.
July 25th, 2009 at 1:01 am
Hello Steve. I was a student of yours at the now extinct MASP in 1994. I was going through some of my older poems for fodder for my second chapbook, and found a pair of poems with commentary form you and Andrew. Google brought me to your blog.
Just wanted to say hi, and let you know that those words of encouragement back then have led me to being a better poet. I’ve even been a feature a few times (Worcester’s Poet’s Asylum, and GotPoetry Live in Providence among them).
Much love and joy unto you. And your family…your son sounds like an amazing kid!
-Sylvia “Syllie” B.