by Sasha Stone | Apr 19, 2014 | TO WRITE
Gabriel Garcia Marquez has died at the age of 87. Here is one of my favorite pieces of writing by him: A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings: A Tale For Children Gabriel Garcia Marquez On the third day of rain they had killed so many crabs inside the house that Pelayo...
by Sasha Stone | Oct 7, 2013 | Poetry, TO WRITE
Bourbon Street clanged like a Christmas tree on a train He never blinked. I’m going to build you an A-Frame, he said I built an instant dream on a stranger’s tweaker stare wider than the sky He’d taken enough of something to wish away convention I swam in it too....
by Sasha Stone | Oct 2, 2013 | Poetry, TO WRITE
Trying not to worship the Sun Water eludes capture, leaks and drains where it can before drying up and giving itself over to air Underneath it, the earth’s crust bakes October and it’s still too hot. Here comes you A perfect storm, swollen earth soaked with and...
by Sasha Stone | Aug 19, 2013 | Patti Smith, TO WRITE
Patti Smith imparts the wisdom that comes from being a survivor, a learner, a teacher, a woman, an artist. It is like finding a buried treasure, this.
by Sasha Stone | Aug 15, 2013 | TO MUSE, TO WRITE
Vertigo Frisco in the light of day Painted ghosts Faces half-lit through windows and necklaces, You trailed after an invisible beauty who only looked that way when you looked for me. Your shadow freed the light. A slow moving butterfly, wings trapped in honey You need...
by Sasha Stone | Jul 30, 2013 | POETS, TO WRITE
Almost There by Timothy Liu Hard to imagine getting anywhere near another semi- nude encounter down this concrete slab of interstate, the two of us all thumbs— white-throated swifts mating mid-flight instead of buckets of crispy wings thrown down hoi polloi— an army...
I spend way too much thinking about me.
This is the blank space where that paragraph should be.