Hoarding Any Memory Come give me a smooch! – Richard Lingro, Sr.You appear in a family picnic clipfifty pounds heavier than I rememberand bearded. Come give me a smooch!that scruffy kiss and heavy hug.Lawn mower tractor pulls, greasy rags,and polka music play, profoundaround the fuzzy photos, figures distorted,shorter, thinner, younger years away,driving in a silverContinueContinue reading “Revision of Hoarding Any Memory”
Author Archives: Sarah M. Wells
Recipes for American Meals
These are my best ones yet. I am certain of it.Recipes for American Meals(Haiku)I.Rigatoni: onebox rigatoni noodlesone jar pasta sauceII.M&M Brownies:one box brownie mix, one bagmini M&Msprepare accordingto package directions; addin M&Ms. Bake.III.Abandon ovenmitts and noodle colanders –drive through McDonalds.
Baked Apple, Green Ogres, and Snuggles
My word it’s been a week already. I am pretty run down tonight after a busy day at work and frustrating financial mishaps. I hate money. I really do. All of its finiteness, especially. But in the end, note the lilies in the field and the sparrows in the air – and we’re worth muchContinueContinue reading “Baked Apple, Green Ogres, and Snuggles”
Daily Bread
Daily BreadPoetry ought to have a mother as well as a father.The men are smoking Winstons, wearing work boots,worn denim, deep calluses, their flannelled backs to the fire.They are riding away on motorcycles, pulling upin trucks – semis blare and brake – there they aredigging trenches, moving mountains, there againheaving haybales, picking apples, building scarecrows.InContinueContinue reading “Daily Bread”
Saturdays
Lately, I have had the great joy of spending all day with my kids on the weekends. At least it feels like that – maybe it hasn’t been that way for long, but I LOVE this exhaustion from a day well spent. We squeezed out every ounce of good times from each available minute today,ContinueContinue reading “Saturdays”
Cover Hunting
I have been trying to pull together the pieces that are necessary to go forward with the chapbook and one of those is the cover. The title I have chosen is “Acquiesce.” I’ve flipped through my photo albums here and thought about picking the image of me jumping off the bungee jumping platform in NewContinueContinue reading “Cover Hunting”
Monday Recap
I am still bubbling over a bit about this whole chapbook thing. Chapbooks, for those who aren’t as bookish and nerdy as me, are kind of like mini-books or half the typical poetry manuscript. They generally consist of 15-25 pages of poems by one author. They are printed in limited edition print runs and usuallyContinueContinue reading “Monday Recap”
Ecstatic
I just got off the phone with the editor at Finishing Line Press, and they are going to publish my chapbook! I didn’t really even know I had enough material for a chapbook and voila! here it is. I am still shocked and flattered and honored and amazed. Can I elaborate on how I’m feelingContinueContinue reading “Ecstatic”
Not Not Not :)
NOT pregnant! Woooooooo! Okay, so it has been 47 days since my D&C and I was really starting to over-analyze all daily bodily functions like eating and sleeping, wondering and worrying whether I might-could be pregnant again. Not only has the whole content-with-two thing been hovering over my head, but physically it’s a baaaad ideaContinueContinue reading “Not Not Not :)”
You Can’t Have It All
This morning, Lydia wouldn’t let go of me. She stood on her booster seat at the kitchen table and hugged my neck, her tears dripping onto my jacket. She has never done this before when I have left for work, and I have left for work regularly at or before 8 AM every day sinceContinueContinue reading “You Can’t Have It All”
Sarah Marie Wells 