Category Archives: Poems

#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 →

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#3 Plan E (for escape)

Posted on April 3, 2018 by Merimee Moffitt

Plan E Write to lull the listeners (homework) Sleep dissolves anxieties (awake at 3) Good blood, good cells (well, maybe) have a job to do (retired!) Anticipate harmony, anticipate (why wait?) matrimony, anticipate (beware!) walking away from bad (ummm “bad”?) … Continue reading →

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April 2, 2018 #2 NaPoWriMo

Posted on April 2, 2018 by Merimee Moffitt

NaPoWriMo Every day the path not taken emanates a radius unknown. I awake drenched with blossoms, the gnarly elbows of the crabapple above; my man in my arms again.   You remember that poet with arms like branches, one-leggedly dancing … Continue reading →

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Ecstasy (albeit brief) in Awards!

Posted on March 17, 2018 by Merimee Moffitt

What a surprise in my email! “You won!”  Georgia and I decided to send the book out during the first of the year flurry of deadlines, and I found this local contest. Now every poet and their grandma will be … Continue reading →

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Squash n Rehab Soup

Posted on November 25, 2017 by Merimee Moffitt

my new squash soup recipe   I’m grateful I drove to Farmington from Burque on Wednesday for family day at the recovery center; left my house at 4:40 AM enjoyed the cold empty roads, the high mesa hills pink striations … Continue reading →

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Abercrombie’s

Posted on November 14, 2017 by Merimee Moffitt

Abercrombie’s (built circa 1860) in Anton Chico, NM by Merimée Moffitt            Spring 2011   Wow— an arrow-slotted fortress for Comanche attacks We walk through plumbing parts unearth your father’s and grandfathers’ old porch lantern stacked doors lean, the floor a … Continue reading →

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(Dreaming My Addiction Poems Oct 9, 2017)

Posted on October 9, 2017 by Merimee Moffitt

Abstractions of Addiction A is for Addiction B is for Blame C is for Compassion D is Deranged E is for the Elephants, traipsing through the room F is for Falling, failing, falling, flailing, fear of G, for Getting: high, … Continue reading →

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One Half and One Whole Sonnet, a Wedding Poem

Posted on September 28, 2017 by Merimee Moffitt

  One half and one whole sonnet. “Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds Or bends with the remover to remove: Oh no; it is an … Continue reading →

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Greggory Meets Bob 1969

Posted on August 26, 2017 by Merimee Moffitt

for my friend Gregg (in plaid) a draft by Merimee from notes by Gregg Read it with a Dylan/Cash-kind of rhythm   (gui’ tar) stress on first syllable ps Gregg, I know nothing of song writing. This is a poem; then again, Dylan … Continue reading →

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For Lois Who Read Me The Li-Young Lee Poem

Posted on July 16, 2017 by Merimee Moffitt

by Merimee Moffitt That bright day toronjas not lemonade fifty cents each, large and lumpy picked from a Grandpa’s yard in Arizona bursting with sweetness out of this world. Remember the Hood River peaches hanging over the fence? We rollicked … Continue reading →

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