you are such a sweetheart! You and sorcha and eldarkinslayer are all pulling for me so hard and i feel awesome because of it. Even if I don't win I still have you guys to make me feel like a fucking goddess!
Thanks - it's the first time I had to have an EKG and literally my heart was in my throat the whole time.
For some reason when I write shorter lyric type poems my lines get shorter - aesthetically, I guess I prefer a short poem that kind of stretches down the page rather than be stuffed up into the corner of the page. I've written longer more narrative type poems and the lines seem to lengthen.
I definitely focus on line breaks - Stephen Dunn says to watch out for lines that are much shorter or longer than the rest of the poem and I try to do that. Theodore Roethke taught his students to analyze the first word of each line - if all of the lines in a poem start with of, the, and, but or some other uninteresting words, then maybe the line breaks should be revisited. I definitely try to use Roethke's rule if for no other reason than it forces me to focus on the breaks.
Does that answer your question?
You were up at 2AM last night??? Gosh, I miss those days...
they aren't from any particular thing that I know of. I just said, "I want a voodoo doll" and that is what he drew. It is like he was in my head....spooooky
hand right one i scan and color in photoshop
the hannibal and shadowcat are only slightly changed from the scan i upped the contrast a bit
i like hoodies better then scarfs... scarfs always fall off..
cute pic