For some reason, the word diaspora popped into my head while I was driving on the freeway a couple of days ago. I replaced a couple of lines from a poem I wrote today, as they fit better in this one (and were better than the similar lines I originally wrote). And here I thought I [...]
I started this after reading Bill Drummond’s 3" x 1"… Took me a few days to come back to it to fill in a couple of missing pieces. I’ve read another tellingof childhood adventures,scenes that once might have been describedas idyllic, bucolic, picturesque, unspoiled. One of many. The stories vary in their detail,and sometimes in tone,but [...]
Sometimes when I write I write about how much trouble I’m having writing… The made-up words are hard to fit into context Before you can describe something as firelakenyou have to decide what that is My imagination is still on its extended vacation—the stack of mail being held at the post officemust occupy a couple [...]
Written to a prompt. I know that's not Australia in the photo (it’s Jersey), but it was the first thing to come to mind. If we’re down underthen why isn’t the map upside down or our legs dangling in the skythe blood rushing to our heads? (6 December 2021) Wishes sometimes have consequences is available [...]
Self-explanatory… I rememberedas I was driving back homethat Santa had my mother’s handwritingplus a slight smear of inkfrom putting the tag on the present When I think about itI remember neither subterfugenor betrayal We simply never questioned the conceit Santa never appeared in quotation marksI never pointed out what was obvious to all I can’t [...]
On another topic… She said she was lookingfor an emergency contact—a sensible goal, indeed—and maybe to change the world I’ve only been thinking about changing mineso that kind of practical thinkingis probably a good thingto keep in mind Though I suspect the world at largeonly has to wait us outlong enough to get back to [...]
Continued. The trees drip and sway The rabbits have gone to earthwhile the squirrels nestle in the higher branches The birds have sought calmer weather - - - - - Those of us on the groundignored the earth as it drankmore than it could handle As the lines grew longer and longernight swallowed us allmocking [...]
Thanks to a weekend of heavy rains, I found myself unable to get home the other night, as the freeway was blocked by a mudslide, and all the alternate routes were either closed due to flooding or essentially unpassable due to traffic accidents. Everybody smilesbut everybody dies The silence in between is hard Thoughts no [...]
My take on a prompt: “You’ve lived a long and difficult life surviving in the desert. One day you fall into a deep sleep. When you awake, you find yourself in a lush forest.” 1I could have swornI saw bobbysoxers swooningover Sinatrain the waves risingfrom the sand Too many grains to countin a lifetimehowever hard [...]
Now that we have our hour back… I know how to feel it,but not how to describe it. Weightlessness and weightare not necessarily opposing principles,which is probably why they don’tcancel each other out. And I’m sure it’s whythe room feels so crowdedat certain moments. I don’t have trouble with moments… Actually, it’s moments I havethe [...]
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