Monthly Archives: October 2011

Akram and the ocean three

Sandpiper by Elizabeth Bishop

The roaring alongside he takes for granted, and that every so often the world is bound to shake. He runs, he runs to the south, finical, awkward, in a state of controlled panic, a student of Blake. The beach hisses like fat. On his left, … Read More

words are birds

Dr. Akram’s Drawings

I scanned 30 drawings that Akram drew thinking people might like looking at them. Akram never drew anything before I gave him a sketchbook with some pens and pencils to help him relax while he studied for his medical exams. His tensions, depressions and worries … Read More

Ting Ting & me

On writing a sonnet this week

Last Monday morning I told myself that I was going to write a sonnet over the week completing three lines a day ending with two lines on Friday. Each morning I’d write and post them on Facebook with short videos of students of mine in … Read More