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Thoughts & Quotes

Vulnerablity

April 30, 2019 /

POET & ARTIST

Adrienne Asher’s poems explore ways of finding what female agency and power look like in mythology and history, how to love what perishes, and how our lives resemble and differ from our animal cousins. She lives in the Pacific Northwest with her musician partner, a Maine Coon cat, and nine miles of books. 

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Ugh. Today was a beast, poem-wise. My teacher, Mel Ugh. Today was a beast, poem-wise. My teacher, Melissa Kwasny, gave us a daily assignment for the week to write about/talk with a non-human being. My choice was the cedar in my yard, whom I love inordinately. Today was the day to gather all those notes and write a poem. And I choked. This cedar, my love, who I have watched for an entire year, in all her seasons, while I was sick with Covid? I couldn’t write about her. I just … choked. So I read about cedars all over again. Nope, science didn’t lead me in. Then I read a lot of poems about trees, from poets I love. Nope, those are other people’s visions. Then I walked out and had a chat with my cedar about how I was really jammed up. Went inside, made myself a gin and tonic, walked back outside and oh boy howdy there it was…as is so often the case, I just needed to loosen the reigns a wee bit to see it—A love letter. So all’s well these many hours later. I’ve written a love letter to my lady and the world is right again.
Writing an ekphrastic poem based on this surreal p Writing an ekphrastic poem based on this surreal painting by Christian Schloevery titled “Fable.” My poem offers an explanation, also surreal, of how reading horror or dark fantasy offers an odd but effective escape from trauma.
Day Two. Five poems. Desert warfare, cedars, spe Day Two. Five poems. Desert warfare, cedars, spells, lung cells, roses, woodsmoke, wagons, bones, ferns, obsidian, bravado, spear points, stained glass, doorways, candle wax, sprinklers, lilies, bread, mirrors. My brain’s a cabinets of curiosities.
Gearing up for Port Townsend Writers Conference by Gearing up for Port Townsend Writers Conference by immersing myself in #poetry, both in paper books and ebooks. Going to be listening to, reading, writing, and thinking about writing, for a solid, solitary, week. #bliss
#trout #trout
Turtles, and their beauty. #turtles Turtles, and their beauty. #turtles
In my late 20s, I designed and had this ring made. In my late 20s, I designed and had this ring made. Gold and black jade. I just got it back from the jewelers, after having it resized, so that I can wear it again, after so long. Happiness.
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Birthday girl with g&t. Right on the dock, sunny a Birthday girl with g&t. Right on the dock, sunny and warm…and dinner was all sorts of wonderful seafood.

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