Spring love is Romantic But Not Comfortable
L.M. Montgomery’s Emily series is mostly about her becoming a writer. But come spring, love is in the air. How can it not be?
In the first book, Emily of New Moon, I loved the chapter titled “Romantic But Not
Comfortable,” when Emily begins to realize that real romance is very different than how it looks
in stories and poems. Well, I had to write a poem about that.
In April I collaborated with an artist and friend named Nan Henke in a joint painting and poetry show called Crossroads. Nan did a painting of wildly exuberant flowers that looked like it was right out of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The art itself seemed twitterpated, as all things are in spring.
Read the rest of the post, along with my poem based on Nan’s art and, of course, on Emily, at Project Redux.
