A Bosom Friend
*A Bosom Friend Anna, you are two rooms away studiously turning disaster into art. How do you spell earthquake? How do you spell smoke? At the bottom of your paper a dashed-off sketch in red ink of houses burning and falling. This picturing gift was born in you but the words above the flames are new, the concentrated stitching up, flame with word, new. My word, made flesh, tonight you claim your birthright, set with your red pen the match to a new vocabulary. Sherry Robbins, from Or, the Whale, BlazeVOX [books] * Join me for Or, the Whale, a Just Buffalo Literary Center Adult 4-session discussion group centered on Moby Dick. An optional creative writing prompt will be offered before each session, but the focus will be on the book itself. For more information, click on the link below. https://www.justbuffalo.org/shop/writing-workshop-or-the-whale-moby-dick-2020/ Short bio: Sherry Robbins, a self-diagnosed Moby Dick fanatic, is a poet and teaching artist. She has two books of poetry, Or, the Whale, BlazeVOX [books] (a poetic reimagining of Moby Dick), and Under World (Outriders Poetry Project), two chapbooks, and dozens of poems published in literary journals and anthologies here and in Spain, Portugal, and Canada. Robbins is the only poet invited to read at Seaman’s Bethel Chapel in New Bedford (see Moby Dick, chapter 7) at the invitation of the New Bedford Port Society and the Portuguese collection of the New Bedford Library.
Sherry Robbins 