Coffee Musings - 053007

I'm currently reading Francine Prose's Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them. I just started, and I'm at the part where she discusses sentences, and uses a Virginia Woolf sentence as an example. She uses it as an example of what can be created when the fluidity of language is recognized. Sometimes a long sentence, if written with the joy like that of eating a ripe peach after a 10 minute walk in 90 degree weather, can be just as fun to write as it is to read. I plan on reading Strunk & White's book for clarity, but it just hit home, again, how fun writing can be. I know that Neruda felt it. It's pure joy to write when we mix it up a bit with the language. 2+2=4, but (2+5)-3=4, also. That's why I like to write, and I should set aside time to write poetry. However, when will I have time to write poetry? There must be a way . . .