Welcome to the second edition of Ask a Twitter Poet.  This week I was thinking about how often water comes up in my writing.  Maybe because I’m from New England, grew up on the coast, and then lived in New York city before moving to Texas where, well, we’re basically landlocked.  I dream a lot about water, too — last night I had version #34695467y of the recurring dream where my bathroom is flooding.  And so often dreams like this get incorporated into my work.

So I thought I’d ask what other folks find as recurring topics in their work.  Not abstractions like love or politics or the meaning of life, but straight up, concrete images: birds, sand, trees, breakfast cereal. Below are some of the answers I got on The Twitterz:

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Welcome to what I hope will become a regular feature here at Metre Maids.  My plan is to regularly ask Twitter a question via the @MetreMaids account (if you don’t already follow us, get on that!) and cross my fingers for some good, creative, and interesting answers.  This week I’ve been thinking a lot about my journals — the volumes and volumes of writings that I’ve kept from my teenage and college years and the volumes I have yet to write — and what a great asset they’ve been to me as a writer.  I thought I’d ask what other folks thought of as their best poetry tool.  Below are some of the answers I got on The Twitterz.

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