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On Halloween, Thinking about What’s Spooky
Hint: Not Pumpkins

There’s a great garbage patch
in the North Pacific.
It bobs plastic,

all those beer rings,
the sacks that bag things,
the bottles of that water we prefer,
the toys, the gear, aped furniture,
the wrappings of our shiny lives,
the trappings of our dull lives–
(a lot of them at least) land
over there–

Other bits band together
in the North Atlantic,
the Indian, the Arctic–each
has its fellow patch, thatching some large
sea surface, bits seeping
to the deeps.

In the Pacific, the mass
dwarfs Texas (on a good day).
It’s bigger yet
when the eddies stretch.

Breakers break some
to polymer–de baby
of debris–
Oh polymer!

But the mer, le mer, our mere,
still doesn’t like that shit–
what wants light withers
without sun;
st0maches swell
with swallowed gadgets;
others suffocate
in the cratered nets
of ghost fishermen, or similar
knotted tangle–the goal of some
gone game–

Still, we keep at it–
making garbage, buying garbage,
sending it out to sea–

so we can have room
for more.

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Here’s a poem for Fireblossom’s Friday on With Real Toads to write about something spooky. 

We are now into November, and I am seriously contemplating a break from poetry–(i) to catch up on my job life but, more importantly (ha!) (ii) to try to get some momentum from “Nanowrimo” national novel writing month–to work on another novel.  It’s hard to focus on a novel if there is almost anything better to do.  But, in my case, if I go without focusing long enough, I lose track of all my scribblings,  and end up feeling terrible.  (Yes, I should be more organized with my notebooks!)  At any rate, I’ll see what I can stomach. Do check back in as I may at least end up writing about writing–if you are interested in that. I know I will miss all of you, and the daily back-and-forth of blogging not to post at all. 

In the meantime, do also consider checking on my very different past novels–Nice and Nose Dive, as well as 1 Mississippi (children’s book) and book of poems, Going on Somewhere.  Nice and Nose Dive are on Kindle for just 99 cents!  Thanks!

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