A birthday pantoum…
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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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Are all poems about love and sadness? (A poem)
Written during last night’s open mic… Continue reading
Observing a couple on a day at the museum (a poem)
I spent my free time this weekend binge-watching Louis…
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Sparks (a poem)
I woke up at a weirdly early hour this morning…
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Some pitfalls of the double LP (a poem)
I was listening to Pink Floyd’s The Wall while writing a couple of poems… Continue reading
NaPoWriMo 2015, Day 18: Ground out (a poem)
Today’s Writer’s Digest April PAD Challenge prompt turned out to be a tricky one (I accidentally let a stray ‘e’ slip in)—though that may have been mostly to my choice of vowels…
Dance 2 Noise 005 (a poem)
Written while listening to a Japanese artist’s cover of Culture Club’s ‘Miss Me Blind’ on a rainy, slightly blustery evening…
Questions about storytime (a poem)
Wrote this during one of the many folk songs people played at open mic earlier…
My lifeline to you (a poem)
The September 20th prompt in The Daily Poet: Day-By-Day Prompts For Your Writing Practice, by Kelli Russell Agodon & Martha Silano, is to write a short poem about a favorite item, using Donald Hall’s ‘The Things’ as inspiration. I chose to approach the subject a different way, focusing on the catalog of emotions that is my ever-changing music collection. Continue reading
Ordinary Average Thoughts 