Last night, I used my Polaroid SX-7o for the first time this year. When putting the print in the empty film box to save until I got home, I found that I had left three photos in it from the last time I used the camera…
Life
Dear Thursday…
Dear Thursday,
It’s good that you made it rain. Very good…
Love,
Kevin
(15 January 2015)
Q&A: What are you working on these days? (January 2015)
It has been a while since I last posted one of these entries. I sort of ran out of questions to ask myself that I thought anybody else would be interested in, and then I got a couple of copy-editing assignments, which kept me busy for a good three weeks or so. The question I address in this entry is one that I have actually been asked a few times recently…
Running on empty (a poem)
The January 14th prompt in The Daily Poet, by Kelli Russell Agodon and Martha Silano, is to write a poem that consists of one run-on sentence—commas okay, but no colons or semi-colons. I hate run-on sentences, but I figured I’d give this one a shot.
I ended up, more or less, with a prose poem. I don’t like prose poems, but breaking this one up into lines and stanzas didn’t make sense, so I will just let it be…
Dear Wednesday…
Dear Wednesday,
Sleep, sun, and serenity. That’ll work.
Love,
Kevin
(14 January 2015)
Bow Hill Road (a poem)
A familiar sight driving north on I-5 towards Bellingham and the Canadian border is the exit sign for Bow Hill Road…
Dear Tuesday…
Dear Tuesday,
I love the quiet of this morning…
Love,
Kevin
(13 January 2015)
The Reading (a poem)
The January 10th prompt in The Daily Poet by Kelli Russell Agodon and Martha Silano, is to pick a letter of the alphabet, and accumulate a list of at least 25 words starting with that letter, then ‘use at least 15 in a poem about something that does not start with that letter.’ Since I did not write anything on Saturday, and today’s prompt did not spark my interest, I tackled this one today.
The list of words I came up with: temptation, text, tunnel, therapist, talk, tears, tarot, train, table, TV, thermostat, tape, tree, today, Tuesday, twin, thermos, telephone, throw, theatre, tombstone, testify, Thursday, trapped, three, Texas, there, talent, truth, think, trumpet, thunder, trap, travel, time, tradition, transit, together, triangle, thought.
I mixed things up further by writing about my experience at a poetry reading on Sunday.
Dear Monday…
Dear Monday,
There’s light coming in through my windows. Very nice.
Love,
Kevin
(12 January 2015)
We pause for this interruption…
So, I ended up not writing anything yesterday. Continue reading
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