090227J Journal, Friday, February 27, 2009, 3:20 PM
We are in the car on Moross in line to get onto I94 to go to Woodward Camera to pick up Elphie who is back from being repaired.
We stopped by Rolandale on the way because today we the day that the house was supposed to be inspected. It was also the day we were supposed to close, but of course, we couldn't close because the house had not been inspected yet. We hope there are no further glitches. We went by to check if the lock box had been put on the door and it was there. They don't leave it there because someone could bust it open, get the key, and go in and steal the furnace, water heater, copper pipes etc. The lock box was there.
Now we are on I94 and it's a dismal day, cloudy and raw. It's above freezing but not by much. And it feels bitter. We are planning to get the camera and then walk at Cranbrook. It won't be a good photo day because of the low flat light and brownness after days of rain. But at least we'll be walking in a different place than in the neighborhood.
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Fri, 2/27/09
Dear Dawn,
Hello, how are you, did you enjoy the reading? I hope you have a good weekend!
I wrote TWO prose poems (and I have since written a third.) Starting with a single idea, I went off in two different directions. The first one I wrote was one in the series of poems I am working on concurrently with the Geraldine poems. It is quite strange and gets progressively stranger. The second one, which began with the identical set-up, is a Geraldine poem, and goes in an entirely different direction. It's not as weird because the weirdness of the other poem doesn't really fit Geraldine. THEN, I did with the Geraldine poem pretty much what I'd done with last week's poem, I kept adding to it and changing it. The original poem is now part two of a four-part prose poem. (The other new one we'll just ignore and leave out of the discussion.)
OK, so here's the question and the reason I'm writing: Would you prefer that I bring the weirder no Geraldine poem, the short version of the Geraldine prose poem, or the longer version of the Geraldine poem? I'm leaving it up to YOU if you would like to direct the way the time is allotted and the course of the discussion. Let me know if you have a preference. Thanks, Mary :-) PS Looking forward to class, YAY!
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OK, at 3:38 PM we have just gotten off I 96 and are headed north (?) on Woodward toward Woodward camera.
Saturday, February 28,2009, 2:47 PM We are just back from buying Graham a new bike. Tomorrow is his birthday. We will have nothing else for him. He wants to have an
• Check water (pipes etc)
• Sign ACR letter city county building
• Insurance
• Change utilities
• Cashiers check made out to ourselves after we get the amount
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4:14 PM We are on our way to Belle Isle. We have inspected the Rolandale house. There was some new water damage that we hadn't seen before--that wasn't there before. And a few problems we hadn't noticed and I was re-impressed with how TINY the place is. I had been thinking I could divide up the living room into a small living room and an office to 2nd guest room, but it is really small. I was thinking maybe we could eat in the kitchen and use the dining room for a living room, but that ain't going to happen either. Upstairs, on the second floor, there are two bedrooms and a bathroom. One bedroom I was going to make into a studio and the other into a dedicated guest room, which would be NOT used for anything else. Guests and me while I'm there working need to be able to eat, need a table to sit at for meals, need a comfy chair to relax into and chat. Etc. So, hmm, I may have to share office and studio space, which will compromise both.
Detroit is mostly a horizontal city rather than a vertical city.
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