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An untitled poem about long ago Decembers (a poem)

2021/12/03 — Leave a comment

Self-explanatory…

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Profile (a poem)

2021/11/22 — Leave a comment

On another topic…

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After the flood (this time) (a poem)

2021/11/18 — Leave a comment

Continued.

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Five and a half hours (a poem)

2021/11/17 — Leave a comment

Thanks to a weekend of heavy rains, I found myself unable to get home the other night, as the freeway was blocked by a mudslide, and all the alternate routes were either closed due to flooding or essentially unpassable due to traffic accidents.

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Respite (a poem)

2021/11/11 — Leave a comment

My take on a prompt: “You’ve lived a long and difficult life surviving in the desert. One day you fall into a deep sleep. When you awake, you find yourself in a lush forest.”

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There’s a moment—like this one (a poem)

2021/11/07 — 2 Comments

Now that we have our hour back…

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I have a poor imagination (a poem)

2021/11/02 — Leave a comment

Working from a prompt: ‘Write a fictional version of your life where you made a different choice at a pivotal moment. What is your life like today after you made this past decision?’

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I don’t know how I got here (a poem)

2021/11/01 — Leave a comment

Partly based on a recurring dream.

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死神 (Shinigami) (a poem)

2021/10/27 — Leave a comment

Based on a prompt: ‘write your worst fear as if it were a living monster’. This doesn’t quite do the job—but some things are hard to translate.

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Laminate: the noun as an object/the verb as a fetish (a poem)

2021/10/26 — Leave a comment

Written in part while watching a documentary about Joseph Beuys.

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