Feels like a good day to crack it open 📖

“Painting Is the Sky” by Eileen Myles
from A “Working Life”

That’s not a new thought
& every single thing u
Built is a perch
6 black crow
And one tiny bird
On a wire says whatever
We own the sky
And half of us
Cat our blackness
Over there
The orange & pink
& yellow where the road
Ends and it doesn’t
End. Mountains
Fill the view & disappear
When night falls
What’s that word
About gathering the future
It means this

A few years ago, I went to a poetry reading at Arizona State University and met American poet and writer, Eileen Myles, born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It was a small gathering of people with chatting and cookies after. I believe the month was November. For whatever reason, today’s lunch break felt like the right time to crack open Myles’ book and read a few poems. I’m glad I did. I enjoy reading the voices and perspectives of others as much as I enjoy writing, and that’s saying something. Thanks for reading! Michele

“Myles is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, an Andy Warhol/Creative Capital Arts Writers grant, four Lambda Book Awards, the Shelley Prize from the Poetry Society of America, and a poetry award from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. In 2011, Myles was a featured writer on Harriet. In 2016, they received a Creative Capital grant and the Clark Prize for excellence in art writing. They have taught at New York University and Naropa University. Myles’s film, The Trip, can be seen on YouTube. They live in New York City and Marfa, Texas.” The Poetry Foundation

Poem note: I did my best to maintain the structure and format, when typing “Painting Is the Sky”

my photos from daybreak and lunch break

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