Friday, June 13, 2008

Working together, lunch and memories.

Lynne Rees is using 3BT in her AppleHouse Poetry Workshop -- can't wait to see some of the results.

1. Tania and I write from the same set of prompts at the same time. As she points out afterwards, we're thousands of miles apart, but sharing creative energy.

2. Tender gnocchi in a green sauce, a bottle of fizzy water and a tiny cup of espresso.

3. We watch Ray Mears interviewing Torres Straits islanders. A toothless former pearl shell diver reminisces about scaring sharks by blowing bubbles at them. He laughs as he describes driving them towards a rival, and the rival scaring them back again.

Hoarders, flowers and technology.

1. In a low voice he reels off the names of the muscles where I have been hoarding all this tension. 2. He comes home with posies of flowers...