Post-it Palimpsests

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I should get a better picture and write it up sometime, but my students played along to this activity I made up that I’m calling “Post-it Palimpsest”—layering reading, experience, theory, and intersectional approaches in varying sequences.

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Darkling

I startle awake near 3 am

when you come home

when you come to bed

It seems ten inches of snow 

arrived early (unlike you)

but (like you) suprises

You're word and work-tired,
cross--a sword or some all-

over weapon--a rock 

I should shine you up David,

Goliath. I'm already reach-
ing, are you ready?

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The final word...

Big A's first appearance in the NYT (1975).  He is the final, hyphenated word in the obituary:

"Surviving are a daughter by a previous marriage, Louise Laskey, a sculptor; a grandson, and a great‐grandson."

I was looking for references to Louise for Nu since it's one of her middle names and she may have inherited some of that artistic talent when I found this (and was oddly overcome with love for a baby Big A).

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Mt. Hope

We walked to Mt. Hope for the first time this year. The thaw is here and the smells must be wondrous because Scout and Huck could barely take two steps without nose-exploring. Scout found that the smells on all the utility poles he had tagged in the fall had faded, so he had to pee-graffiti all of them again.

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No Comment (only chuckles)

At's contribution to the family chat today.

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Nu-Casso

So amazed by Nu's talent.

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Learning

The true name
of everything
eludes me

this is new told
sweaty pillow,
spills insomnia

dreams gallop,
but like one-
legged cripples

into the softly
ruined betrayals
of our children

whispering
we know,
you know.

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