My Day 12 poem is my response to the NaPoWriMo.net prompt, which involves writing a poem using at least one word/idea/concept each from Lempriere’s Classical Dictionary and the Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction. I chose ‘Lusitania’ from the former and ‘completist’ from the latter. The completist view is always that of ‘just one more’ but ‘just one more’ [...]
My Day 11 poem is my response to the NaPoWriMo.net prompt, which involves writing a poem consisting of a pair of letters—one to yourself or another person, and the reply you get back. A few words to help you in the years ahead: You are never going to be prepared for all the things that [...]
My Day 10 poem is my response to the NaPoWriMo.net prompt, which involves following the instructions to poet Hoa Nguyen’s ‘Junk Drawer Song’. I did follow all the steps, but chose to include all three of them in my finished poem. The song I chose as my focus for the first part is David Sylvian’s [...]
My Day 9 poem is my response to the NaPoWriMo.net prompt, which is to write an unusual person or character’s to-do list. 1 Slip down between the cushions so that Kevin has to remove every blanket, pillow, and cushion to find me. 2 For one microsecond, enlarge the voice command button so it fills my [...]
My Day 8 poem is my response to the NaPoWriMo.net prompt, which is to write ‘a poem in the form of a monologue delivered by someone who is dead.’ When I lived in a semi-rural area for a few years, we occasionally had to remove a mouse or two from the house (the cats could [...]
My Day 7 poem is my response to the NaPoWriMo.net prompt, which is to write either a fib (six lines, with the number of syllables on each line corresponding to the Fibonacci sequence, or 1/1/2/3/5/8) or a shadorma (six lines, with the syllable count by line being 3/5/3/3/7/5). I combined both forms, using the fib [...]
An annual rumination. I resisted,allowing doubt, and frustrationto hold sway. Soft-spoken expressionsnever spoke loudly enough to register. I wouldn’t seethe complete picture. (To this day, I see only the frameand an outline or two.) Because I don’t like the ocean,I avoided dipping my feet into high tide. The moon must have sensedmy displeasure;despite the rising [...]
My Day 6 poem is my response to the NaPoWriMo.net prompt, which is to use a short line from a favorite book as the title of a poem, write a poem based on that title, and then replace the title with something completely different. I started out with a line from the 2006 translation of Meditations, [...]
My Day 5 poem is my response to the NaPoWriMo.net prompt, which is to write a poem that has the same shape as another poem. I chose Vasilina Orlova’s poem ‘Pet’. from her book Holy Robots. (You can view the poem by clicking on the book cover thumbnail, then entering the title in the search field [...]
My Day 4 poem is my response to the NaPoWriMo.net prompt, which is to write a poem inspired by one of the photographs presented by @SpaceLiminalBot on Twitter. I responded to this photo. A statement of intent or perhaps a requiem A quiet goodbye for people who still need hope A use for the box [...]
