Author Archives: Merimee Moffitt

Greater Chaco fundraiser

Posted on May 15, 2018 by Merimee Moffitt

I read my poem “The Tour or Fracking is Fracking” at the Greater Chaco fundraiser, Saturday May 12, at the Santa Fe Art Institute. Thank you to Jules and John for the anthology and for donating copies of Water to the … Continue reading →

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swimming upstream NaPoWriMo #30

Posted on May 1, 2018 by Merimee Moffitt

Slatted blinds, oak, broken, dog chewed, replaced last year with European lace. “Old lady curtains,” my daughter said. But I love them. The house is our heartbeat, our job like vagabonds given blossoms to bathe in, dust and roses, … Continue reading →

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For Eleanor NaPoWriMo #24

Posted on April 25, 2018 by Merimee Moffitt

For Eleanor, a confabulation of stories April 23, 2018 by merimee She really did look pretty with the angora shawl arranged around her turquoise top It brought out the blue in her eyes that must’ve made many a man … Continue reading →

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NaPoWriMo #19

Posted on April 20, 2018 by Merimee Moffitt

So what the fuck has kept me alive these 72 years? well, almost 72, come Gemini time My husband? the one who anchors? makes us eat makes me love him even if our love is like a staring match Hah! gothcha—you … Continue reading →

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NaPoWriMo 18

Posted on April 18, 2018 by Merimee Moffitt

Those paths you’d rather not take? Well, someone’s on them. A woman in a fake hospital, a medical money collecting agency that squeezes every dime out of crime against the ill: negligence, incompetence unkind roughness—lifting my friend by her … Continue reading →

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Nonsense NaPoWriMo 11, 12, & 13

Posted on April 14, 2018 by Merimee Moffitt

Nonsense “Ensanguine,”he said. We wanded fingers over personal screens: “To make bloody or crimson.” Those crimson sheets and panties, all-engulfing sex, life gulping reason, dying for thirst. Drink my blood, look, slowly now, then, in lusty crayon crimson. Optimistic, really, … Continue reading →

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Hippie (NaPoWriMo #9 & 10)

Posted on April 10, 2018 by Merimee Moffitt

Hippie, well, yes, but by Merimee I wasn’t a very hip hippie— imposter—I liked beer and Louie Martini more than Acapulco Gold. I loved vintage clothes living freely, impulsively, loving whom I pleased (myself) to love. I liked the … Continue reading →

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Embrace #8 NaPoWriMo 2018

Posted on April 8, 2018 by Merimee Moffitt

Embrace an English teacher today. At least think about it: her eyes like dos puntos: period period.. His member an exclamation incarnate! The vehicle of Interjections! Speculate on ellipses and spaces: drafting, practice, practice. Imagine an English teacher, Mr. So … Continue reading →

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#5 & # 6 NaPoWriMo 2018

Posted on April 6, 2018 by Merimee Moffitt

#5 & #6 April 6, 2018 mm The year of my first daughter, Jorie Graham’s Erosion— I still have little time to read the stacks and piles, glean an education that in the end does not surpass the births, … Continue reading →

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#4 New Flame

Posted on April 4, 2018 by Merimee Moffitt

Have I secretly been saving them up to look at later The women who made it into the grind and out the press? Oh that my dad had shown me Maxine Kumin those years he was stuck on Ralph … Continue reading →