I’ve won the Vanderbilt University Medical Center House Organ (an in-house magazine) Annual Writing Contest in the poetry division. As an employee of Vanderbilt, I have entered every year since I started working here, but there are nearly 20,000 employees and I don’t know how many send in entries. Last year, Wayne Wood, the director […]
Month: June 2007
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Never quite know what to say these days, Some wisp of a thought floats by and I snatch it with desperation like a starving man Grasping the crumbs under the long-cleared banquet table. The wealth of easy creativity with words seems a distant dream, The faint echo of the foghorn heard round the bend downstream. […]
Crazy Crazy
I drive myself crazy. I’m sure I’ve said that before, but What in the world is the matter with me??? I want to do everything… anything… [sigh] I’m starting to realize I just can’t. So I do what comes to mind, What comes to hand, What crosses my path, When I can, as best I […]