Journal 7 - Brooke

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He is Trying to Get Home From the Store,

By Susan Firer

but lake winds pick him up

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& blow him into the clouds. I
married a dreamer. I wait. He
stops to listen to the early
lilac orchestra. He starts to
change into blowy horizontal lake
rain, then migrating red admirals.

I thinksay remember. I remember us.
We chose the imaginal
north/south somewhere
between Bartlett Avenue and Jupiter,
between Lake Michigan and
the Aegean. Remember we drink
 Serbian Cosmos together, we eat
squash blossoms and red snapper soup.
We visit the Calatrava before bed. We
nurture a magnetic field of words. I am

remembering you back. Remembering
plays time. Thinking is all remembering.
I remember our young
bodies. I'm not finished
with us. Remember that.
If someone asks, "why is that lady
out walking in that lake storm?" Tell them
"months ago her husband went to the
store in a blizzard& never came back."
Tell them: "She can't stop looking for him."

I  liked this poem a lot because it was so sad sounding and nostalgic, and it also made the lady sound kind of insane. It was like an inner-monologue from a crazy person. It was sad, crazy, and sweet all at the same time.

Poetry foundation is by far my favorite website. It's such a staple for a poet. I found a ton of information on Emily Dickinson when I did that presentation. Everything is so neat and nicely laid out. Poetry out loud was much the same. Everything on that website was very neat and easy to find. I didn't like the MPT website as much, I felt like I had to dig around a lot more. I did like that MPT had the SoundCloud link of the reading of the poem right there next to the poem. I thought that was really cool. Overall I would give poetry foundation a 5, poetry out loud a 4, and MPT a 3.