[Originally posted December 2021, shared here again for National Poetry Month 2024; also including mention of fundraising for suicide prevention.] Stealing. In part one I wrote about poetry as a practice, and touched on using your body as an instrument in that practice. Part two was about facing the blank page, and using a simpleContinue reading “On Writing Poems – part 3 – stealing”
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The Hotbox Behind the Books
In the bookshelf, below the window and behind the spines,above the heater, once winter’s arrived,is the hotbox, where you’ll find Ninja,Her Majesty, curled and asleep, or reclinedand in thought, four legs stretchedand pressed to the wall in this space that we keepjust for her, for Her Majesty, who likes it warmwhen it’s cold, and coolContinue reading “The Hotbox Behind the Books”
Chris Bevens | pedalpoet 