Here I use the napowrimo.net prompt: to write ‘something that involves a story or action that unfolds over an appreciable length of time.’
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22:17 (a poem)
I turned off the TV a few minutes after ten to go to sleep. A few minutes later, I looked at the clock…
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Easter eggs in autumn (a poem)
Inspired by the Shiina Ringo DVDs 賣笑エクスタシー [Baishou Ecstasy] and Electric Mole.
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The dream I had last night didn’t find its way into this poem the way I wanted it to (a poem)
I had this dream in mind from last night, but couldn’t find a place for it here…
Life as the architect of my own undoing (a poem)
I’m in the middle of an editing job, so I was running short of inspiration today. Here is today’s lone poem to emerge from my pen:
The feeling and what it’s been missing (a poem)
For this month’s writing challenge, I have chosen the rimas dissolutas, a form in which (according to A Poet’s Glossary, by Edward Hirsch) ‘each line in an unrhymed stanza rhymes with its corresponding line in a subsequent stanza.’ This, I am finding out, is harder than it sounds…
The illusion is always the same (a poem)
Written after encountering yet another selection (‘Forest Park’, ‘Willamette Valley’, and ‘Lake Billy Chinook’) of Travel Oregon commercials on Hulu. Guys, seriously: Don’t make me wait. Don’t make me choose. Just show the damn spot already…
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Time, love, and money (a poem)
With National Poetry Writing Month ended, and a new month begun, it’s time for a new challenge. After looking at a few possibilities, I have decided to give verbless poems a shot. Yup—poems with no verbs. Here is my first entry:
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National Poetry Writing Month, Day #9
Today’s napowrimo.net prompt is to write a poem ‘that includes a line that you’re afraid to write…because it expresses something very personal that makes you uncomfortable…’
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Passage (A poem)
Another small break from the pantoum, because I just spent some time constructing a couple of new poems from the first lines of some of my previous poems…
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Ordinary Average Thoughts 