Yup, the country's going to hell… Burning insideBurning inside Catch me I’mCatch me I’mburning inside Steam escaping through the cracksand time escaping through the cracksand the whole thing going cattywampuswhere the last thing you’d expectwould be for everything to go rightand everything to go wrongand the offramp to go past our destination The last thing [...]
This is what came through my mental transom this evening… The life of the defensive touristhas restrictions, you know a barely defined senseof what it means of what it means to besomething that can barely be defined How much of this is the way it’s supposed to be?How much of it is what I’ve brought [...]
Every year, I write a tanabata poem for July 7th… From this sidethe chasm feels infinite The images I conjureare weak, almost transparentworn through Those streaksare tears in the canvasfor the stars to fall into They crowd along the edgeswaitingto dive in I want to makea last-gasp, desperate attemptto reach you But for all I [...]
The 12 poems from this year’s half marathon, written between 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. PT. Hour 12—A nonet: https://thepoetrymarathon.com/blog/kevinjoconner/2021-poetry-marathon-hour-12/ Hour 11—A poem containing at least five phrases from a list of 10: https://thepoetrymarathon.com/blog/kevinjoconner/2021-poetry-marathon-hour-11/ Hour 10—A poem about any holiday in December or early January: https://thepoetrymarathon.com/blog/kevinjoconner/2021-poetry-marathon-hour-10/ Hour 9—A poem based on a common saying: https://thepoetrymarathon.com/blog/kevinjoconner/2021-poetry-marathon-hour-9/ [...]
One of those instances where a line popped into my head and I followed it from there. I waited to get some feedback before posting this one. I was a little surprised by a couple of the interpretations, though it was easy to see how they came to those conclusions. We haven’t smidged a single [...]
Last night, I was watching some concert footage on YouTube of a Japanese singer I’ve been listening to a long time. Between the nostalgia and the first line of a Patti Smith Instagram post, I ended up writing this. The beloved primaa journey beyond the planetsand the plants of her ill-tended garden Lighter than air [...]
Playing a bit of catch-up today. Thursday afternoon at the bookstore, realizing I am there for the wrong reasons 1I am looking for a memoirbut learn it is not duefor another two weeks I wander from rack to rackand stack to stackcuriosity piqued by nothing Colors, names, familiar phrasesspark not a spark 2I open another [...]
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 [...]
