Writing it down before I lose it…
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Quiet fog (a poem)
Another day of slim pickings—I got to writing too late in the day…
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Interstitial poem (a poem)
Slim pickings yesterday. Between the heat and general frustration with the course of the day, I wrote much less than usual…
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Time to grab a pick and start digging… (a poem)
It was a much quieter morning for me today than yesterday, even though I am still sneezing plenty. At least I had enough relief to enjoy some coffee and watch the first season of Girls (which I had not seen before) on Amazon Prime.
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One of Those Small Moments That Come Back As Random Memories (a vignette)
I started out writing this as a poem, but quickly discovered that it needed to take a different form:
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NaPoWriMo 2015, Day 29: Constantinople (a poem)
Today’s Writer’s Digest April PAD Challenge prompt is to write a ‘what nobody knows’ poem. I can definitely say that nobody knows the answer to the question posed in this poem…
NaPoWriMo 2015, Day 25: The false comfort of five thousand miles (a poem)
Today’s Writer’s Digest April PAD Challenge prompt is to write an ‘across the sea poem’. One thing I will say for their prompts: They’re not very exciting, but they do give you a lot of latitude…
My ambition, the great mystery (a poem)
Today’s Writer’s Digest April PAD Challenge prompt is to take the phrase, My (blank), the (blank), fill in the blanks to create the title of the poem, then write the poem. I combined this prompt with the terzanelle from the other day…
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…
NaPoWriMo 2015, Day 14: After the rain, everything looked different (a poem)
Today’s prompt in The Daily Poet by Kelli Russell Agodon and Martha Silano is to write a poem starting with After the rain, it all looked different. Close enough…
Ordinary Average Thoughts 