Bryan Ripley Crandall, our host today for Day 9 of VerseLove at http://www.ethicalela.com, lives in Stratford, Connecticut, where he directs the Connecticut Writing Project and is Professor of English Education at Fairfield University. He co-hosts National Writing Project’s The Write Time.
Bryan explains his process and directions for writing, which you can read more about here.
He shares his process and the directions by inspiring us to write about our homes and places we’ve lived. I’m not thinking past today – I’m thinking future.
My Open Road Retirement Home
a teardrop
a fifth-wheel
a bumper pull
no tent
no yurt
no fort in a tree
a camper van ~
Class A, B, or C
anywhere I can take to the road
most any RV will do for me
but with this old back and
collapsible knees
no tearjerkers for me, please
a full tank of gas
a State Park Pass
dogs by my side, ready to ride
(husband can come, too, if he’d like)
pens to write and books to read
and that is all I’ll ever need
Common Threads 