Yesterday I mailed off my latest short story to a magazine.
The story came from an urgent dream that woke me up
at 2 AM. We’ll see what
happens. The main character
in it is based on two professors who taught at WWU,
Robert Huff (who I have mentioned before and written
a 40 page essay on) and
Perry Mills. Perry used to
visit me at the library every week and was always
entertaining. I gave him a copy of my book HOME
RECORDINGS and he wrote this
review:
The poem he liked so much is this:
The Witch of East Maple
Unfortunately, she didn’t get very far
on the last sunny day of winter.
Her broom swooped down the incline
from her shuttered house on the hill
and veered into the car wash bay.
Caught in hot water evaporation
only the weight of her stick
made it through to the other end.
The broom hit the pavement
like a dead branch.
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