Bonus round—another long poem from the typewriter (in edited form).
Poetry
Flowerhead (a poem)
The title comes from the title of an album by Steven Wilson’s old band, No-Man…
Bookstore Poem #243
A longer poem slashed down to its core—which happened to be its final stanza: Continue reading
Car parts (a poem)
Me, road trips, and cars…
Uncommon deities in hiding (a poem)
Written while listening to Uncommon Deities.
Waiting Room Poem #28
A seventeen-word poem… Continue reading
Bookstore Poem #240. The girl with the camera
While I was at Third Place Books this afternoon, a teenage girl asked me if she could take a couple of pictures of me for a class assignment. Continue reading
National Poetry Writing Month 2018, Day 30
For Day 30, I went off-prompt, as they say. Instead of the Napowrimo.net prompt to engage with a strange fact, I opted to go with the prompt posted on Chris Jarmick’s POETRYisEVERYTHING blog, which involves writing a poem of 8 to 12 lines, with the odd-numbered lines being borrowed from poems I have written over the last 30 days, and the even-numbered lines being new lines written for this poem, with at least one of these new lines including something blue. I made three attempts at this; I couldn’t figure out which one I wanted to post, so I made this a three-part poem and used all of them.
National Poetry Writing Month 2018, Day 29
The Napowrimo.net prompt for Day 29 is to ‘write a poem based on the Plath Poetry Project’s calendar. Simply pick a poem from the calendar, and then write a poem that responds or engages with your chosen Plath poem in some way.’ I chose to work with ‘The Rabbit Catcher’. I applied the approach from the Day 18 prompt, going line by line from the last line of the poem to the first, responding to each line along the way. (Oh, and nobody should be concerned. Yes, things have been difficult, but the first stanza is about my feelings about wearing neckties.)
The Third Symphony (a poem)
Bonus round—an unusually long poem, written on my typewriter as I was listening to Henryk Górecki’s Symphony No. 3: Symphony of Sorrowful Songs.
Ordinary Average Thoughts 