Listening to Steely Dan’s Aja…
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Poetry Marathon 2016, Hour Two: Georgia
Second poem of the day. Continue reading
The third day of rain (a poem)
Giving in to the autumnal cast of the last few days…
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The Pop Conglomerate (a poem)
I hope I haven’t edited the life out of this one. It started out quite rough.
Thoughts that keep me from sleeping (a poem)
Getting some stuff out before bedtime…
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Overcoming Nostalgia (for lack of a better title)
I’m in the middle of a phase. Not quite spring cleaning, not quite a purge, but something in between. One of those periods in which I feel compelled to rid myself of the untouched, the unused, the excess. Continue reading
NaPoWriMo 2015, Day 25: The false comfort of five thousand miles (a poem)
Today’s Writer’s Digest April PAD Challenge prompt is to write an ‘across the sea poem’. One thing I will say for their prompts: They’re not very exciting, but they do give you a lot of latitude…
Sunday mornings at Grandma’s house (a poem)
Today’s prompt in The Daily Poet by Kelli Russell Agodon and Martha Silano is to write a poem that uses I remember to begin each line. I wrote such a poem a few weeks ago, but decided to give this challenge a try nonetheless. This time, I thought back to Sunday morning breakfasts at my grandparents’ house when I was a kid…
Morning at 33-1/3 RPM (a poem)
Written while listening to a Jackie Gleason box set I picked up at a thrift store for 99 cents… Continue reading
Bow Hill Road (a poem)
A familiar sight driving north on I-5 towards Bellingham and the Canadian border is the exit sign for Bow Hill Road…