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8/8 fragment poem

2021/08/08 — Leave a comment

Well, I couldn’t call it ‘Sunday impressions’ because there’s already a Pizzicato Five song by that name.

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Fire season (a poem)

2021/07/30 — Leave a comment

Yup, the country’s going to hell…

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Stepladder (a poem)

2021/07/16 — Leave a comment

This is what came through my mental transom this evening…

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Are the stars out tonight? (a poem)

2021/07/07 — Leave a comment

Every year, I write a tanabata poem for July 7th…

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2021 Poetry Marathon

2021/06/26 — Leave a comment

The 12 poems from this year’s half marathon, written between 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. PT.
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An honest accounting (a poem)

2021/06/20 — Leave a comment

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.

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So I remember (a poem)

2021/05/29 — Leave a comment

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.

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Three poems

2021/05/21 — Leave a comment

Playing a bit of catch-up today.

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National Poetry Writing Month 2021, Day 30: I am here

2021/04/30 — Leave a comment

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.’

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National Poetry Writing Month 2021, Day 29: Through the windows

2021/04/29 — 2 Comments

My Day 29 poem is my response to the NaPoWriMo.net prompt, which is to imagine a scene through a window.

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