A small update for this week as everything continues apace & new things come to the fore.
Casual rambles, short stories and poetry done casually
We’ve been away for a while. But now without some doings; read what’s been happening behind the scenes at the Casual Ramble.
I haven’t even finished recapping my Oregon Country Fair experience.
But I guess we’re doing this.
My truly beloved typewriter, my AusRoyal 7400, is in need of repairs since its return from SOAK.
So this is the perfect time to start playing bingo, right?
It all goes much slower than one would like. But the time still goes and with it comes an update on my first ever poetry collection, Lyrics for a Song I Don’t Know & an announcement!
“Chachi,” I said with a half-smile curling at the corner of my lips, “you can’t tell me that.”
“Oh?” she responded with a tone of surprise.
“Yeah, if you dare me to do it, I’ll have to do it,” I stated with [the] assurance of a fait accompli.
“Oh, well, I dare you, then.”
“Fu–.”
I intended to release a poem a day (every weekday) & I already fucked it up.
But that’s okay, because we’re gonna dust off the shoulders & get back on it anyways.
Read about changes to the blog, the Patreon & the way we’re doing things.
I am exhausted. Exhausted from driving, from burning, from finishing up my manuscript.
And yet I’ve never felt so alive.
I feel like I have just been sucked out of a vacuum. In truth, I think the muse had just gone. It needed a small break before it could engage for a full weekend at Tygh Valley for SOAK.
April is a month of birthdays and I have here a collection of poems that occurred to me as little isolated thoughts and vignettes from the month, some obvious some not. They’re all still works in progress, per usual. But I’m learning how to kill my darlings and share!
The Casual Ramble 