L.L. Barkat

L.L. Barkat is the author of Rumors of Water: Thoughts on Creativity & Writing as well as two spiritual memoirs Stone Crossings: Finding Grace in Hard and Hidden Places, and a book of poetry Inside Out: Poems,. She is also a Small Press publisher, the Managing Editor for TSPoetry.com, and the creator and manager of Every Day Poems.

Higgins Writes the Poetry of the Gods

My little heel-wings are not made of feathers:/
they are made of tongues…

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How I Am Not Learning French in Eight Weeks or Less

Maybe in a decade I will, belatedly, surge with political passion or faint from shock or love. One cannot predict what ten years of after-bath French will do to a person.

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Opening Your Life to Purple-Bottled Dreams

“I am not a poet,” I said to the room.

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Give It a Year

Why devote a year to a stunt? Wasn’t there something inherently suspect about that? Might it not be a waste of time?

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Stealing Norton: Do You Work at Your Art?

Why try to master these things called words? Isn’t writing an art? Doesn’t that mean we can just let things pour out as they will?

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Ghost in the Appliances

I am thinking of buying a pistol. Because, today, my stove unilaterally changed its clock to military time. (Just what, I ask, must a stove be planning, to take such measures?)

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Writing in a Cabbage Place

On a day when I am overwhelmed and cannot think of a single thing to write about, the cabbage presents a challenge to tell the world that the writer is never at a loss.

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Ten Acre Dream

“We want to live off the grid,” she tells me.

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Pittsburgh

Snow has fallen on Penn Avenue/ as golden morning, fallen, melting/ and I walk past Heinz dead sign/ pouring wishes red by ruffled bird

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The Art of Drinking Tea

A long time ago, my mother gave me the ritual of tea. It was a comfort, like the poetry she read to me each day before the school bus came.

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