08 Time After Time from 100 Days by James Navé

08 Time After Time from 100 Days by James Navé
Published by 3: A Taos Press
Thirteen metal staples ladder down my belly. Ninety steps rise up six flights of stairs to John van Hasselt’s flat in Paris, which I have traveled to each year since 1985. But not this year; I have other things to do. Today, I took my first walk down the drive. I considered the new peas and garlic in raised vegetable beds. I walked past three goats, two horses, and five mockingbirds chattering in an apple tree. I returned to the porch and opened my laptop. Martini, the cat, strolled around the corner. A wood-bee thumped my screen. I streamed “Time After Time” on TSF Jazz, Île-de-France. When Tish opened the screen door, I said, I’m pretending I’m in Paris.
Here’s your question: Where does you imagination wander when you long for something you can’t have?
THE LAKE EDEN WRITING WEEK, May 19-25, 2024, with Nickole Brown, Allan Wolf, James Navé, and special guests. Join us for a terrific week of writing from The Imaginative Storm to the Creative Form. To register or learn more go to www.jamessnave.com.
BACKGROUND NOTES ON 100 DAYS: Poems After Cancer
Twelve years ago, celebrating Poetry Month beginning April 1, I wrote 100 poems in the 100 days following my surgery on March 30. Last May 2023, 3: A Taos Press published the poems in a beautiful book titled 100 Days: Poems After Cancer: 3taospress.com.... In the spirit of poetry, I'm revisiting this journey by reading one poem daily from “100 Days” over the next 100 days, concluding on July 9, 2024. I hope you enjoy the poems.