A Day in the Life
Six pictures from a day in the life . . .
A Journal of Personal Essays
Six pictures from a day in the life . . .
I have known [Maxine] Kumin’s work since 1970, when a single poem, “After Love,” caught my attention in The Saturday Review, a weekly high-brow arts magazine that I subscribed to.
I got out the sketch book. “I don’t want to work, I just want to gaze at the grass all day,” I wrote at the top of the page with Derwent Inktense pencil in Iris Blue.
June 28, 2008
Saturday
Sit by my side, come as close as the air,
Share in a memory of gray;
Wander in my words, dream about the pictures
That I play of changes.
— Phil Ochs, 1940-1977
American singer-songwriter
Something shifted in me today, some quality in the air or the light that told me to pay attention, to look around, to […]