We are here! It's April, National Poetry Writer's Month. Check out additional links here: my NaPoWriMo blog Sunday, March 31, 2013 On April 1 Eve So it is Sunday morning and I have a pot of coffee, french-pressed because I love the sludge it leaves at the bottom of the cup. What will tomorrow bring? What will April bring? What rough beast... I am thinking Whitman. But it won't be "the blab of the pave." No, more like the whispers of the dirt road, the Southern dirt road. Tobacco Road. The me inside, not the mask that I wear. I am thinking long, pre-dawn walks along the Potomac River. I am thinking the beauty of the women of my people, and the immortality of the soul, and the indomitability of the human spirit. All our people. All our souls. All our spirits. Perhaps we'll link up in this exercise, me and my ModPo colleagues (you know who you are!). What I write will certainly be influenced by...