"poem" broadside #314 / Queen’s University writer-in-residence (2012) poem-pick # 3: "untitled" by Wanda Praamsma

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m says: do you have that problem, all your socks disappearing into the washing machine?

they slide into this hole

there’s this whole mountain of socks in there

he – oh mysterious he – tells me:        intuition

use it

                        you don’t have to know what you’re doing

just do it

                        make something

                        don’t plan it all out

take something small and go with it

                        see where it takes you

                                                            wise words

at a reading at a library on a downtown ottawa street elizabeth hay says:

you don’t always have to know what you are doing

and so: I promptly go outside and call nancy cooper alice cooper

she laughs

like my mother and her coils

she has a shape in mind and that’s it, start rolling

the clay

untitled
by Wanda Praamsma
above/ground press broadside #314
& Queen’s University writer-in-residence (2012) poem-pick # 3
curated by Phil Hall)

Wanda Praamsma is a writer and yoga instructor living on Wolfe Island, Ont. She has new work forthcoming in ottawater #9. She blogs at www.quietlychurningstomach.com