Memories of a writers retreat experience

 Karen, Carolyn, Deanna at a book signing by Ruth Hawkins

At the Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum
--a senryu sequence

Hasten, hasten all
writers –you who’re interested
in ‘one true sentence.’

Come to the old barn
where E. H. once wrote
parts of A Farewell . . .

Surrounded by ghosts,
his typewriter, leopard skin
rugs, whispers of lust

we focus efforts
to learn to write like Papa,
stark words, whittled to

the pith, gist and gut.
Imaginations flit, soar,
breaking boundaries

found in home, office,
school. Like doves released, we fly,
fill page upon page,

exult in fatigue:
a story begun, finished.
To Papa! Hear, hear!

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[10:24 pm, 1.21.14, Tuesday]

[Pat Laster

To the state critic, 1.16.14

Revised ala critic, 1.21.14]