Sunday mornings at Grandma’s house (a poem)

Today’s prompt in The Daily Poet by Kelli Russell Agodon and Martha Silano is to write a poem that uses I remember to begin each line. I wrote such a poem a few weeks ago, but decided to give this challenge a try nonetheless. This time, I thought back to Sunday morning breakfasts at my grandparents’ house when I was a kid…

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NaPoWriMo 2015, Day 5: Political Science (c. 2015) (a poem)

Today’s NaPoWriMo.net prompt is a bit tricky. It involves taking an Emily Dickinson poem, stripping out all the line breaks, re-breaking the lines, and adding and subtracting words. I chose to use her poem The World is not Conclusion, turning it into a commentary on the current state of American politics…

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NaPoWriMo 2015, Day 4: Break the code—read the message (a poem)

Today’s NaPoWriMo.net prompt is to write a ‘loveless’ love poem—i.e., one that does not use the word love and does not include the usual trappings associated with love poems. As luck would have it, I had a dream last night. I wrote two poems trying to capture what I remembered of the dream; this poem is a composite of the two—appropriate, since the woman in the dream seemed to be a composite of two or three different women. [N.B., I have swapped titles with the other poem I wrote about this dream, after realizing that each title fit the other poem better.]

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