I really must pay less attention to the news…
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anticipation
Poetry Marathon 2016, Hour Five: The last time I went there
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Somewhere along the line (or A poem in which I exhaust the metaphor of life as a train trip)
Up late after hearing about the death of Muhammad Ali and watching old clips on YouTube.
While I wait (A poem)
Started while sitting in a coffee shop that was a bit too warm for comfort…
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The long slide from hope to rage (A poem)
This pantoum was inspired by the title of an article appearing in The Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/mar/02/the-guardian-view-on-super-tuesday-the-long-slide-from-hope-to-rage
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Dear Iris (A poem)
Today’s epistle, another terzanelle, is inspired by my choice to work on my tax return today…
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Autumn festival (a poem)
I hate nature poems—so of course I end up writing one (or something resembling one)…
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Dispatch from somewhere in the middle of the queue (a poem)
Not much writing yesterday. Fortunately, this last thing I wrote before calling it a night has some redeeming features…
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Wishing (a poem)
The January 25th prompt in The Daily Poet, by Kelli Russell Agodon and Martha Silano, is to use an abstract word as the title of a poem, then write that poem using concrete images. This is what I came up with…
a Tanabata poem
July 7th is Tanabata (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanabata). I wrote this poem with that in mind.
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Ordinary Average Thoughts 