Even starting is catching up

Poetry month again, only this time it's the official month, which made it hard to skip, though of course I was tempted. So, a poem a day. I started working on something yesterday, but there was a long hike involved, whose quite steep terrain hadn't been advertised, and once I finally sat down again, sleep set in. I'll see if I can catch up, though, and make it an even 30 poems... In the workshop the seed was planted for doing praise poems. I thought of Neruda's odes to common things (this translation of Ode to tomatoes was a huge influence on me early on.) But I'm thinking more about common things like--self-help books and Botts dots. We'll see...