My Day 30 poem is my response to the NaPoWriMo.net prompt, which is to ‘write a poem in the form of a series of directions describing how a person should get to a particular place.’ This is a small little worldmore than deserving of these redundant descriptors Beyond these walls may as well bea thick [...]
My Day 29 poem is my response to the NaPoWriMo.net prompt, which is to imagine a scene through a window. I look at windowsall day long They show me other lives other worlds other stories other joys other sorrows other horrors other choicesother ways of being thinking doing having learning loving hating living dying killing [...]
My Day 28 poem is my response to the NaPoWriMo.net prompt, which is to write a poem that poses a series of questions. QuestionsQuestionsQuestions People want to knowif I have any questions Why do I always have to have questions?What if I understood the first time?What if I want to think about what I’ve just [...]
My Day 27 poem is my response to the NaPoWriMo.net prompt, which is to write a poem inspired by an entry from the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows. I chose several entries, and managed to address them all. The name of the entry referenced appears at the beginning of each section of the poem. agnosthesiaThe view from [...]
My Day 26 poem is my response to the NaPoWriMo.net prompt, which is to write a parody. When it comes to song parodiesI’m no Michael Scott or Weird Al—no “Beers in Heaven”, “My Bologna”, or “Another One Rides the Bus” My most famous parodycomes from the early 1970s— Sunshine on my shouldersgives me sunburnSunshine in [...]
A small experiment. Apart from the stanza to which strikethrough text has been applied, I have not yet edited this poem. Pretend she is in your living roomreading a bookor sketching something from her imagination Ask her if she’ll visitthe next time she dreams Ask her if she’s readthe poem that wrote itself Say nothingtake [...]
My Day 25 poem is my response to the NaPoWriMo.net prompt, which is to write a poem about a particular occasion. Up late againwatching the showsI missed these last couple of daysbecause I forgot they were on this week (Fran Lebowitz is talking about air) It’s not coldthough the day was coolerbut the heating pad [...]
My Day 24 poem is my response to the NaPoWriMo.net prompt, which is to find an article about an animal, then replace the name of the animal with something else, and use the resulting text as the basis for a poem. I opted for biting satire; I used this Guardian article about leeches. Is it [...]
My Day 23 poem is my response to the NaPoWriMo.net prompt, which is to write a poem that responds to another poem. I chose this piece by S. R. Mason, as it got me thinking about taste and flavors. (Maybe I should have called it ‘Flavor-less’, but I liked the punny quality of ‘Taste-less’.) I’m [...]
My Day 22 poem is my response to the NaPoWriMo.net prompt, which is to ‘write a poem that invokes a specific object as a symbol of a particular time, era, or place.’ I’m not in the habit of keeping keepsakesthe way I used to do Sometimes remnants of the pasthave to be discardedin order to [...]
