During September

I have been listening to:

P J Harvey – everything up to & including White Chalk
The Fugs – First Album
Roxy Music – Roxy Music
Tim Buckley – a new compilation
Pat Metheny – The Road to You (or something like that)
Joy Division – Closer

I have been reading:

Ray Dipalma – especially the Sun & Moon early selected
Bernadette Mayer – more recent volumes
John James – dippings into the Salt Collected

I have not been writing

(why?)

I have been getting vaccinated

(boosters for Egypt)

I have been swimming

(but not as much as usual)

I have been trying to find ways to make 10th Grade students connect with poetry

(and failed in most cases?)

I have been feeling oddly out of sorts and ill at ease

(and then remember that this happens every mid-late September)

and today, the last day of September, I sensed it was Autumn

(that chill to the air at 7:45 am, smell of moist leaves, sound of the year changing gear)