Poetry

The January 16th prompt in The Daily Poet: Day-By-Day Prompts For Your Writing Practice, by Kelli Russell Agodon & Martha Silano, is to come up with a list of ten words each about oil and snow, then to alternate a word from the two lists in each line of a poem until all the words have been used. My snow words were granule, icy, angels, crystalline, blanket, powder, pack, flurry, blizzard, and flake; my oil words were fuel, golden, stain, fluid, smooth, slick, viscous, slip, flammable, and commodity.

Ordinary Average Thoughts

Confounding expectations since 1963

Now that it’s no longer a secret (a poem)

A morning poem (a poem)

Reconciliation (A poem)

After the race that never reaches an end, but abruptly stops just because (A poem)

The dark horse runs unnoticed at night (A poem)

The last dispatch from the dearly departed (A poem)

The death of the Grand Dame (A poem)

Sickbed slumber #4 (a poem)

Sickbed slumber #3 (a poem)

Sickbed slumber #2 (a poem)