Daniel Nester's writing experiment

Make your own white album

Paul Lisicky

What would I like to teach?

Virtues to teach children according to Natalia Ginzburg. Do you think about these same things or any other aspects?

Framemaker

Occupation

Yestderday while talking about doctors, I recalled a word called compounder. Now I cannot recall or simply dont know how a nurse is different from a compounder. By word, a Compounder would have to mix some medicines.
From a binding word like this we move onto its another meaning of a keep-out. Compound wall.

Like Robert Frost wonders in
Mending wall,
Before I built a wall I'd ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out

But compund itself, while adding some things into the mix, its leaving out all the other things. Cliques

While at it, I was thinking of another occupation word, Peon.
They might have been done away with in the digital world.


From A widows story by Joyce Carol Oates, I expected something like the reflection in Mark Doty's Heavens coast.

Have you come across a book where you like all the writing and stop reading it cause you have made up your mind that you are going to have the book with you as long as the material world will allow and thus stall the reading. Is this what happens in relations too?

In some way, reading is not just about the moment of what has been published but about all the moments that happen to and make the writer. Mark Doty's blog lets me do just that. And soon I will get to the book too.

Knowing the study

I still cannot figure this para on gender studies. Now there is a need to know some from MIT

Avian Icarus

Quadrupled crow
with winnow
tied to wings

Ink filler

In the recent years
filler is a cell
you put on the chip
filler is a thing
to maintain
the continuities of time or space

I forget the soft plastic
capillary that puts the blood
into the pen

Pipette
Burette

Poet hunt

I have started reading Bob Hicok's poetry book Words for empty and words for full.
His interview at Smartish Pace introduced me to more poets - Maureen Seaton. Tess Gallagher. Artaud. Bill Knott. Rodney Jones. Frank O'Hara. Ai. Szymborska. Amy Gerstler

Gustaf Sobin - lyric development of poem
C K williams - long line

Kelli Russell Agodon - how influenced by Olena Kalytiak Davis, Naomi Shihab Nye, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Martha Silano, Susan Rich
William Bronk

From Knotts interview to Carol Ann Duffy

Locating

Find a postbox
logo in the picture
you can tell
where the picture
was taken

Writing competitions

Droplets

The capillary in
Provocative Woman
has tiny tubes
of perfume

Dew on spider web

Both genres

I am reading The Art of Nonfiction by Ayn Rand. I see that she has also written The art of fiction.
Yesterday I started reading Now write! Nonfiction. In the introduction, there is a mention of Now write fiction by the same author.
As of now, they seem like two opposite points. May be the state of righting both is the final Nirvana state of writerhood.
contributors

Scurrying lizards

Lizards of southwest

On the hike, I found 3 lizards and I was reminded of a rare lizard we saw as kids. It was called ' pala binde' in Telugu. The words translate to milk pitcher. It looked cream light in color. It didnt have cringe looks like the other lizards.

The Short horned lizards have a wider center breaking our lizard narrow expectations.

Field

Once in a while, funny titles come up.
The Field guide to fields

The spelling of field is unsoothing compared to its meaning.

Fauna by month

The view from lazy point

The conservation ethos is deeply present in each chapter.

Atrazine interferring with Amphibians.

Nurse shark

daffodils by April and red birds playing Prima Donna with their songs - 'It aint spring till I sing'. If these things signal spring, and thinking of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, spring stops being a season, it becomes a status signal.
When I came across Witness for Nature, with its massive 634 pages, I felt disappointed that I couldnt take it up for reading.

Parrotfish and coral reef