‘Stop all the clocks,’ says WH Auden in his poem, ‘Funeral Blues.’ ‘Cut off the telephone. Stop the dog from barking with a juicy bone. Silence the pianos and with muffled drum, bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.’ The first time I heard this verse, I hadn’t lost anyone, really. A few neighborsContinue reading “Knock Out Punch”
Monthly Archives: December 2014
A Piece of My Mind
For someone who considers herself a writer, I have a hard time explaining things. One night at Zumba during a particularly tiring routine, I gasped the words, “I feel like I’m in a concentration camp hauling rocks, with no dinner in sight.” Since we were dancing to the theme song from, “Love, Actually,” I was asked to lighten up. But I wasn’t whining. I wasContinue reading “A Piece of My Mind”