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 [...]
My Day 27 poem is my response to the NaPoWriMo.net prompt, which is to write a poem inspired by an entry from the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows. I chose several entries, and managed to address them all. The name of the entry referenced appears at the beginning of each section of the poem. agnosthesiaThe view from [...]
My Day 26 poem is my response to the NaPoWriMo.net prompt, which is to write a parody. When it comes to song parodiesI’m no Michael Scott or Weird Al—no “Beers in Heaven”, “My Bologna”, or “Another One Rides the Bus” My most famous parodycomes from the early 1970s— Sunshine on my shouldersgives me sunburnSunshine in [...]
A small experiment. Apart from the stanza to which strikethrough text has been applied, I have not yet edited this poem. Pretend she is in your living roomreading a bookor sketching something from her imagination Ask her if she’ll visitthe next time she dreams Ask her if she’s readthe poem that wrote itself Say nothingtake [...]
My Day 25 poem is my response to the NaPoWriMo.net prompt, which is to write a poem about a particular occasion. Up late againwatching the showsI missed these last couple of daysbecause I forgot they were on this week (Fran Lebowitz is talking about air) It’s not coldthough the day was coolerbut the heating pad [...]
