I haven't exactly been keeping up with my 'poem a week' experiment. I am probably about three weeks behind. I did write the Rumpelstiltskin poem and a poem about the quilt popped into my head at about 11:30 one night. I stayed up for an hour to get it out of my head. I figured that I wouldn't sleep until I got it out anyway. My mom calls it 'monkey mind,' I prefer 'monkey brain.' There's another one for my 'glossary' tab. Monkey brain is when you are trying to sleep and your brain has a tornado of ideas blowing around (or just one really big one), and you won't sleep until they are out. If you do sleep, you risk losing all those ideas by morning. I have also started that poem about Snow White for the next issue of Enchanted Conversation. I haven't heard anything yet, about Rumpelstiltskin, but they have a lot of reading to do.
I have been thinking a lot about how to approach the quilt book. I could write a short story about each quilter. It might be called a work of semi-fiction. Using whatever information I am able to collect, I could write a story that tries to capture the personality of each quilter. I was thinking about a chapter for each quilter, but I don't want to just spew out their birth dates and other vitals. I am receiving wonderful stories and may be able to re-tell some of them. Maybe the urge to write poetry will strike, that does happen to me from time to time. The book should have structure, but at these early stages, I am open to all sorts of creative avenues. If each quilter has their own chapter, maybe each chapter can contain different features. I guess it all depends on what information I am able to collect. I am hoping to have pictures of each quilter, past and closer to present. I would like to incorporate the quilt as much as possible, into the stories. This may be difficult, since none of the families had ever heard of the quilt, until now. It is possible that there may still be quilters who are alive and ready to share. I sure hope so.
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