I seem to be rehashing a lot of old themes lately…
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Dendrites and scarecrows fray over time (a poem)
I managed to rescue this one from itself at the last minute…
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Something to consider before applying for my poet license (a poem)
I managed to get this one out during the last few hours of a migraine…
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Whistles and buzzes (A poem)
A noisy breather sat next to me at last night’s open mic…
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Crow kill (A poem)
The crows were out today….
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Sister Aimee’s improbable disguise (A poem)
This originated as a cut-up poem constructed using phrases cut out of some wacky religious book that showed up in people’s mailboxes last week. I rewrote most of the lines to make them flow more smoothly.
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Now that it’s no longer a secret (a poem)
Not much came out of yesterday. It happens…
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A morning poem (a poem)
The January 16th prompt in The Daily Poet: Day-By-Day Prompts For Your Writing Practice, by Kelli Russell Agodon & Martha Silano, is to come up with a list of ten words each about oil and snow, then to alternate a word from the two lists in each line of a poem until all the words have been used. My snow words were granule, icy, angels, crystalline, blanket, powder, pack, flurry, blizzard, and flake; my oil words were fuel, golden, stain, fluid, smooth, slick, viscous, slip, flammable, and commodity.
Reconciliation (A poem)
The first line of this poem comes from whatever I was watching yesterday before I dozed off on the sofa…
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After the race that never reaches an end, but abruptly stops just because (A poem)
I don’t know how I stumbled upon the horse-racing metaphor, but there it is…
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Ordinary Average Thoughts 