Ampersand poems—what I call poems in which the ampersand (&) replaces every instance of the word and—piss me off. So I wrote this… Continue reading
poetry
shovelling snow at midnight (a poem)
Quay Brothers films at the end of a long-ish day, together with the sound of one of the resident managers shovelling snow in the parking lot (yes, at midnight)… Continue reading
Bookstore Poem #146. Take a number
Third Place Books, Lake Forest Park. News of the day sort of thing… Continue reading
Bookstore Poem #144. 144
Third Place Books, Lake Forest Park. Doing my best to maintain a sense of humor. Continue reading
Undarned (a poem)
Based on a quote I saw posted on Twitter… Continue reading
Your words are too good for me (a poem)
Quay Brothers films at the end of a long-ish day. No particular images reflected in this poem, though… Continue reading
Bookstore Poem #139. Optical illusion at Third Place Books, Lake Forest Park
Third Place Books, Lake Forest Park. Continue reading
Exquisite corpse poem in The Seattle Star
Recently I participated in another Creative Commons celebration in Seattle. As part of the festivities, participants were asked to contribute a couple of lines to an exquisite corpse poem—a poem constructed a line or two at a time, which each participant seeing and responding to only a single line.
The Seattle Star, the fine folks who put on the event, have published the poem on their website. Here is the link: http://www.seattlestar.net/2018/02/the-glazier-and-the-barber/
(17 February 2018)
Bookstore Poem #131
BookTree, Kirkland. Continue reading
Actualization (a poem)
Today it’s season two of Fargo… Continue reading