Today I picked a prompt from PoeWar: “Write a poem that repeatedly uses numbers.”
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moments (a poem)
Another vignette.
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a Tanabata poem
July 7th is Tanabata (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanabata). I wrote this poem with that in mind.
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many years later (a poem)
Another vignette.
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4th of July, 2014 (a poem)
No prompt. Just a vignette.
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What Do I Know? (a poem)
The June 23rd prompt in The Daily Poet: Day-By-Day Prompts For Your Writing Practice, by Kelli Russell Agodon & Martha Silano, is to write a poem “about what you’ve taught yourself.”
1963 (a poem)
The June 22nd prompt in The Daily Poet: Day-By-Day Prompts For Your Writing Practice, by Kelli Russell Agodon & Martha Silano, is to write a poem about things that happened the year you were born, using “the first line of Sandra McPherson’s ‘1943’ [I was born in the year of __] as a jumping off place.”
Summer Solstice Poem
The June 21st prompt in The Daily Poet: Day-By-Day Prompts For Your Writing Practice, by Kelli Russell Agodon & Martha Silano, is to write a poem that includes five of the following words: luminous, bedazzling, sunny, saturated, radiant, incandescent, illustrious, bright.
J.Y.M. Speaks (a poem)
The June 15th prompt in The Daily Poet: Day-By-Day Prompts For Your Writing Practice, by Kelli Russell Agodon & Martha Silano, is to write a poem in which “someone or something in a painting or a sculpture will be the speaker”. The only thing that came to mind that depicted “someone or something” that could be imagined to have a voice was Frank Auerbach’s Head of J.Y.M. II, which is the painting used for the cover art of Japan’s 1983 live LP, Oil On Canvas.
The Proof Is in the Printing
Yesterday, I finally got the proof for my forthcoming book. Because the Espresso Book Machine (EBM) at the University Book Store has been down for a few weeks (!), the proof was printed in Portland, on the EBM at Powell’s. Continue reading
Ordinary Average Thoughts 