L'aura del Campo

A place to heal. Watching the movie outside.

A place to heal

         with apologies to susanL

So should I buy a big bad house
with a secret boudoir and reclining couch
where distraught writers could disappear
for a week or forever til the ink runs clear
and poems dance out the door?

Should I have taken my own advice
and burrowed my way to a village of mice
where a tender youngster could've disappeared
for a week or a summer til thoughts ran clear
and the fear was healed and repaired?

Well I should've,
                    but I didn't
                                        and life's unfair.

© Kåre Enga [164.152] 07-07-30

THOUGHTS:

We could all use a place to get away for awhile. I purchased my copy of Poet's Market 2008 last night (just out) and there are writer retreats mentioned. One is in North Central Wyoming ... nowhere ...

Poet's Market has only 1,600 entries! I haven't read them all yet ...

IMAGES:

The bus: ice-cold box, my glasses fogging up from the humidity and heat.

9th Street movies: The Big Clock, black and white against a streaked wall; two stars to the south-west over the parking garage tower; dry and calm; people draped over folding chairs and blankets; short sleeves and shorts on the grass; suits-and-ties and ladies-in-hats on the screen; popcorn.

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