3rd entry for the day
Late last night (somewhere around midnight), my husband and I were watching television and I flipped the channel over to Def Poetry on HBO. We watched for a few minutes and then I changed the channel. But those few minutes, made my husband question me. He wanted to know if I had been writing any poetry lately. I told him no, not really, that I had only written a few in the last few months. And that was the truth because I have not been writing nearly as much poetry as I have in the past. He then wanted to know why I haven't been writing and where I have been keeping them. I told him that most of them were in the computer. He then said "I wouldn't even know how to find them or get to them." I said "why would you want too." He said "in case something was to happen to you, the boys would want to have them". We then got on the discussion that my oldest son has actually read some of my poems, the ones I have written about him and then he wanted to know if I had written any about our youngest son and I told him that I had. Then he surprised me by telling me that I should put them in a book and that he would like to read some more of them. I just looked over at him in the dark in wonderment because he never really has shown an interest in them. I told him that I had too many to put into just one book and then he wanted to know how many I have written. I figure close to 400. (maybe more, I really don't know) He was shocked when I told him.
He also said that we should frame the ones I have written about the boys. And I told him that I wanted to paint one of them around the top of our bedroom too. He said he remembered that I wanted to do that and hoped that we could soon.
I told him that I wanted to find some place in our town that I could go to and read and hear the poetry of others.
It was just nice to have that kind of conversation, about something that he KNEW I was interested in and for him to show a genuine interest.
Maybe things really are looking up.....
4:10 p.m. - September 20, 2004
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