Serendib Writing

Waves go in, waves go out.

Waves go in, waves go out. 23 seconds. My in-laws were very concerned when they heard we’d gone down to the beach, because apparently it was all over the news yesterday that there were giant ‘sneaker’ waves at Santa Cruz beach, very dangerous. We didn’t know! But I think we must have been there during

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Thinking about translation

Thinking about translation, and I realized I don’t know how writers navigate this situation. So, Bodies in Motion was published in 2005 by HarperCollins, right? And they sold various translation rights, including Spanish, which came out from Grijalbo in 2007 as Las voces del Monzón. If I wanted to issue an edition of that myself,

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Spinning Down

I didn’t write this as a solstice poem, but somehow, it feels appropriate and came to mind, so here you go, a little love sonnet about a candle-tree, light against the dark. ***** Spinning Down It’s dark again, and we have searched for quite some time for that still center, that space where you and

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