Last night, Ramey and I attended a meeting sponsored by ASPS, at the Andrea Lucas Studios in Irondale, and each read a couple of poems to the group. Neither of us fell on her face.
From now on I'm going to carry my camera everywhere I go. Jerri H. shot these with her phone.
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Prof. Alan Perliss of UAB attended the meeting, and I slyly reminded him that many years ago, he critiqued two poems of mine, saying that one wasn't worth anything, and the other had possibilities. I regret that I didn't tell him he was right about the second one; it has won several prizes and has been published at least twice.
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The main reason I wanted my camera at the meeting was Andrea's dog. This isn't him, but very much like him.
I said he was a Great Pyrenese, but I could have been mistaken. Andrea's dog wasn't this furry, and his head was shaped more like a German Shepherd. Maybe he was a little mixed, but he was such a bee-yutiful dog! I almost cried. I had a mental flash of several ways to take him home with me--make him like me so much they'd have to give him to me, offer them a large purchase price, or just outright come back and steal him. It was hard to remember "Thou shalt not covet."
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It's hard not to covet a beautiful dog--or even an ugly one. Proud of my poet sisters.
Wish I had been there!
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