Mrs. Marx has moved to Landon!

Several of you have asked me about my writing...so this page is an opportunity for those of you who are fellow writers and those of you curious (or bored or whatever) to take a peek at my poetry. I will post a poem about once a month. Analyze any poem using any of our poetry explication methods for a ten point extra credit homework assignment! (Analysis must include literal meaning, rhetorical devices, and poetic effect.)

PS--Students often ask me if my poems are autobiographical. Sometimes yes, sometimes no. I write from experience, but often just a kernel of something--a commercial, an article, a person on the street, a photograph--becomes the creative subject of my imagination, and the poems take root there. Truth or fiction, the experience "grows" itself on paper, becomes the poem.

Today

the planetary shift

Work dissassembled

Life rearranged:

Alarm clocks, annoying,

lie silent, dusty

Beds are unmade,

rooms repainted

Suits hang in the closet

dry-cleaned but unworn

Swimsuits are scattered

across the shower rod

dripping with content

Kids, cokes, pool floats

come and go in hourly flux

I sit in the comfort

Of my cedarwood rocker

Its creaking

nearly forgotten

but so familiar in its song:

summer, it says with a sigh,

summer.

Mrs. Marx has moved to Landon!

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