4.12.2010

Hinterland

Clinging to an offspring
She stood beside a sorry
Stone wall
Wailing away like wind chimes

His rabid prairie fire eyes
Poured ignorance like sulfur
Lighting hay stacks and wheat fields
And homes

He said,
I like the blinking lights
I like the buzz
I like the bleak

Holocaust terror ignites her mouth
Nothing, like a covenant
And
One hundred other windy promises

She said,
Sorry you don't like my gingham
Or my crazy eyes
Or our wheat ocean home

Surely?
For a little bit of sky scrapers

2.09.2010

It's been a hundred years

-My mom is learning to play the bagpipes and woke me up at 9am on saturday by practicing her chanter.

-Today my brother dropped/threw the tv remote into my dads plate and it got covered in ranch sauce after which they spent about a half an hour cleaning it off and blow drying it so it would work again.

-I finished my Strawberry hat. I used a child's pattern I found on the internet and miraculously fit because my head is tiny. http://www.lionbrand.com/patterns/kwe-strawcap.html?noImages=&r=1. This picture is bad but the pattern is super simple. I just made mine a bit longer. I also didn't change colour for the seeds but just sewed them on after, it was just so much easier. My next project is a cable sweater.:)

-I have made my decision and am going to the University of Windsor in Sept 2010 for English lit and creative writing

-I entered my first poetry contest with Arc Poetry magazine...I don't get results till April. I could win up to $1,000!

-I got 96 on my preliminary theory exam and 81 on my grade 6 viola practical examination...hoooraaaaa

-Summer staff reunion this weekend in Windsor!

-I need a new job