What if Gertrude Stein had Blogged by Tracy Hamon

As I prepared questions to send to Tracy Hamon for my series of short interviews on blogging and the creative process, I remembered reading a post she'd written called "What if Gertrude Stein had Blogged." I dove back into her blog The Plural Hoe and found the post. I asked Tracy if I could re-post it here and if she could write a little intro to the piece. So here's the intro, which I think says a lot about the way writers are inspired by other writers' blogs, followed by the poem.

Tracy Hamon: The Plural Hoe (which I openly admit to not having posted on in a long while---I blame work, work, and more work) stemmed from a comment made in a post on another blog, by Lemon Hound. In the blog post, Lemon Hound talked of blogging, and asked “What if Gertrude Stein had blogged?” I carried this question in my head for a few hours (maybe a day) until I’d worked myself up into thinking that the idea of Gertrude Stein blogging might be a good idea for a creative blog. I have a fondness for the modernist women, having studied them at some length in university, and of course, being a person driven by an unmanageable imagination, I dove in and created a creative blog.

A Blog

A well. An inked mountain. Inky swell. Hanging of the hat. Headspace; the rest coming. An opening. Daybreak sliced back in peelings. Sewing into what has been hidden. A needling in. The weeded container of what sprouts in rows. A garden. A rose hipped in the nose of morning. Line of dew. Dropped. The plural hoe, digging through. Dug. Dust. A spot underneath. Rubbed away. Running away. Carried on the backs of furrows.

(Tracy Hamon)