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National Poetry Writing Month, Day #13

2016/04/13 — 4 Comments

Today’s napowrimo.net prompt is to write a poem inspired by fortune cookies. After my defeat at the hands of the Day #12 prompt, I needed this one. It’s basically a found poem, with each line taken from actual fortune-cookie fortunes that came up in an image search on Google.
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Working on the new book, days 6 & 7

2016/04/12 — Leave a comment

Wandering through iPhoto land now—approximately 12,000 images covering 2006 through 2010, with a few scans of photos from the 1970s and 1980s.

There was a slight hiccup to deal with first: i.e., accessing my old iPhoto libraries. Continue reading

National Poetry Writing Month, Day #11

2016/04/11 — 2 Comments

Today’s napowrimo.net prompt is to write a poem ‘in which you closely describe an object or place, and then end with a much more abstract line that doesn’t seemingly [sic] have anything to do with that object or place, but which, of course, really does.’ I approached this from a slightly different angle, describing parts of the dreams I had last night/this morning. (Note: Dick’s is the name of a popular chain of drive-in burger restaurants in the Seattle area.)
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