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Episode 152

by Sara

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I’ve been thinking about how many small steps build to a momentous journey.

The Back Porch

 

This #pussyhat is on its way to Vermont.
This #pussyhat is on its way to Vermont.

Ever-expanding Skill Set

With more than enough ingredients for my usual casserole dish, I filled and froze ramekins for a future (quick) weeknight dinner).
With more than enough ingredients for my usual casserole dish, I filled and froze ramekins for a future (quick) weeknight dinner.
This casserole is a spin on the shepherd's pie: pulled pork, mixed vegetables, polenta crust. Hearty and delicious.
This casserole is a spin on the shepherd’s pie: pulled pork, mixed vegetables, polenta crust. Hearty and delicious.

Off the Shelf

Lucille Clifton (1936-2010)clifton

Clifton is noted for saying much with few words. In a Christian Century review of Clifton’s work, Peggy Rosenthal commented, “The first thing that strikes us about Lucille Clifton’s poetry is what is missing: capitalization, punctuation, long and plentiful lines. We see a poetry so pared down that its spaces take on substance, become a shaping presence as much as the words themselves” In an American Poetry Review article about Clifton’s work, Robin Becker commented on Clifton’s lean style: “Clifton’s poetics of understatement—no capitalization, few strong stresses per line, many poems totaling fewer than twenty lines, the sharp rhetorical question—includes the essential only.”                                          — from Poetry Foundation website