(Just Like) Starting Over

Hola! Well, here's to my first post in a brand-new blog. I've been on Blogger for a few years now. My first blog, "Watching the Wheels," [whatsthenewmaryjane.blogspot.com] was a very intimate diary, kept on Private, and only shared with one confidante.

My brand-new blog, "Junk," will not be so personal. Its purpose is so far undetermined, but I assure you it will serve as a sounding board when I need to bitch and complain, or when I simply want to share! And, truthfully, I hope it will restore my regular writing habits, which, unfortunately, have become infrequent and poor in quality. (Perhaps "Junk" will also inspire me to finally update "Watching the Wheels," too.)

In celebration of "starting over," I'll begin by sharing what is probably my all-time favorite poem.

LOOKING AT PICTURES TO BE PUT AWAY

Gary Snyder

Who was this girl

In her white nightgown

Clutching a pair of jeans

On a foggy redwood deck

She looks up at me tender

Calm, surprised

What will we remember

Bodies thick with food and lovers

After twenty years

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