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This Day 14 of my 1000-Day MFA, a DIY education project I’ve undertaken that I learned about from writer Shaunta Grimes. You can read more about how I’m engaging with it here. By the way, there often is no rhyme or reason to how I choose the poems, essays, and short stories. These three selections were made at random, but for me they share a strange, haunting coherence.
Poem: How Did You Get Away
by Rumi
Essay: It Starts With Blood
by Emily Finn
(in Memoir Magazine)
Short Story: The Hunter’s Wife
by Anthony Doerr
How Did You Get Away?
Rumi’s poems often speak in mystic riddles. This one bears sitting with, reading, rereading, sometimes aloud. Let yourself marinate in it. Let it soak in the early morning hours of your day. The line that won’t leave me alone:
You went like an arrow to the target
from the bow of time and place.
The man who stays at the cemetery pointed the way,
but you didn’t go.
It Starts With Blood
This was #1 of the 2018 #MeToo Essay Award Winners in Memoir Magazine. It is difficult, important and timely subject matter. The…
