"all gone to look for america"

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poetry

Well…when last I wrote I was fiddling with my flash, and its printed pages of possibility still lie in a paper clipped pile beside my bed, but the truth is all that I write these days apart from Disney shows is poetry.

Poetry. My first love. My greatest fear. My longing. The form that thrills and terrifies.

On the plane to Nashville tomorrow–during an uncomfortably long layover in NOLA–I plan to…

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#amwriting

So many of you have asked me, “What are you working on?” And for the past year or two I have said that I was writing plenty but did not have a “project” at the moment. 

Yesterday I spent some time poking around my computer, hunting for some pages to send a new critique group forming next month. (Its writer’s are not new to me but we had formerly been more of a wine drinking group with a writing…

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New buzz about LILY HARP

New buzz about LILY HARP

Check out this cool spot for book reviews! They called and asked if they could feature LILY HARP and I said, “of course!” Woohooo! 

http://snowflakesarise.wordpress.com/

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Golden light to welcome us home #nofilter #roadtrip #hesretired #allgonetolookforamerica #littleguytrailers (at The Bartonlaggio)

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Coming in! #almosthome #roadtrip }#allgonetolookforamerica #hesretired #littleguytrailers (at Dommerich Estates, Maitland, Florida)

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Florida #almosthome #roadtrip #hesretired #allgonetolookforamerica #littleguytrailers (at Orange County, Florida)

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Earlier this month I was modeling vibrant age with aplomb. 3 1/2 weeks of outdoor desert and mountain living, severe altitude sickness and exhaustion fever, and I am modeling just plain old age that's plumb wore out. I may be a Wise Woman but I look like a fine western saddle that's been "rode hard and put up wet" #ageoutingphoto2 #wisewoman #almosthome (at Orange County, Florida)

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Georgia farms #roadtrip #almosthome #allgonetolookforamerica #hesretired #littleguytrailers (at Tift County, Georgia)

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Lookie! We ARE getting close to home @wmarieb_sillery @travissillery #roadtrip #hesretired #allgonetolookforamerica #littleguytrailers (at Dawson, Georgia)

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I saw a picture of a friend and her mom today. Gorgeous. Ten years ago it was so cool that she had a hip mamma and grandma for her kids, but today I felt sad that she didn't have a mentor to show her how to age. I don't want to do that to my girls. So here's me (it would have been way more impressively disturbing had I been in downward dog but we opted for a Motel 6 tonight and I have an exhaustion fever, so this pose will have to do) so here's me with lame hair, wrinkled neck, wrinkled eyes (even the third) ugly dark tooth that I started hiding in pictures, zit on chin (um really?) I plucked all the billy goat hairs from my chin already...too bad, that would have been a tremendous touch. Long red nose (it really does lengthen with age) and eyebrows that are now balding from the outside in (wish I could migrate the goatee) now this ended up sounding like an ugly post - and that's not where I'm at - I like me, but I try so hard to hide all those things. Especially in pictures. And I bitch about my tummy or my squiggly parts IN FRONT OF MY KIDS! So this has got to stop. You know the stop-smoking method that makes you smoke in a closed room with others until you hate it and never want to go back? Trying that here. I'm 52. I look as great as I'm gonna, I don't need to BE old acting, but let's face it...who is going to teach my sweet girls that life changes, bodies, change, we age, and most of all - if I am busy trying to be young - who's going to teach the next generation how to be the wise old sage? Not looking for a rocker and a knitting needle (just bought a camp trailer!), just some kind of graceful adjustment. Hoping that outing myself as a paranoid ager, with a desperate need to not be irrelevant, will help. My relevancy will be IN MY CHANGE, in my willing metamorphosis from lithe procreator to...I guess I don't know to what. I like the title Wise Woman. Let's go with that. Namaste chickens. #whowillteachthechildren #imagine #wisewoman #comingclean #willworkmyselfuptodownwarddogphotosoon (at Motel 6)

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Before the Spirit of 'The Long Man' 

Before the Spirit of ‘The Long Man’ 

I sit on the western bank

of the river my ancestors crossed

both Irish and Cherokee.

The wind blows cool

in the shade;

a cup half-full of water. I have been a month in the desert

sleeping in red clay

beside twisted trunk 

barely leaves

canyon crack,

deep and impossible,

low sagebrush 

one and one and one. 

Each a chapter of hope. But today this body 

made of dust needs The Great River 

soft and…

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Rain. I'm almost home. Like the Indigo Girls sing about the southland, "I miss her when I'm gone/it won't ever be too long/before I'm home again to spend my favorite season..." @indigogirlsmusic #finalstretch #roadtrip #hesretired #allgonetolookforamerica #littleguytrailers #almosthome (at Alabama)

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Oh yeah baby, my man can parallel park a daggum camper! #roadtrip #hesretired #allgonetolookforamerica #littleguytrailers (at Birmingham, Alabama)

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In Birmingham, Bo is the king of the patio (aren't his flipper feet cute? Todd's too) #finalstretch #roadtrip #hesretired #allgonetolookforamerica #littleguytrailers (at Rojo Birmingham)

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Arkansas sunset on the Mississippi River #camplife #roadtrip #hesretired #allgonetolookforamerica #littleguytrailers (at West Memphis, Arkansas)

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Camping by the river #roadtrip #hesretired #allgonetolookforamerica #littleguytrailers (at West Memphis, Arkansas)

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Beside the mighty Mississippi #roadtrip #hesretired #allgonetolookforamerica #littleguytrailers (at West Memphis, Arkansas)