It’s halfway through poetry month. Not that we’ve seen much attention to it. Thankfully, the truly ugly Academy of American Poets poster for National Poetry Month (see for yourself, here) has not appeared anywhere we frequent.
On the positive side, our local independent bookstore is offering a poetry month sale on poetry books. But FD is really trying not to buy new books of any kind — must work on the reading backlog!
And FD is trying to insert poetry into daily life whenever possible. For example, when visiting the emergency room recently (it was a case of posterior vitreous detachment), FD was able to almost quote a bit of Romeo and Juliet to try to explain the symptoms that were being experienced. Oddly, the doctors did not seem to be totally appreciative.