Category: napowrimo
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8 Nov: NovPAD Day 8-1/2
In Praise of Pine Cone.Pricklyas a sea urchin. Hometo dry ona winter’s hearth. Bringour facesnear to breathe Inits breath lickingscent awake. These poems/prose are draft versions, written in participation of Miz Quickly’s prompts and Writers’ Digest (Poetic Asides) November poem-a-day challenge. The aim: to produce a chapbook for submission. ©Misky 2022 Shared with #amwriting on Twitter
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8 Nov: NovPAD Day 8
I. Miz Quickly: Short and Sweet Praise Make It Short and Sweet If I were to be executed tomorrow,I’d want lobster with a bowl of mayo for dinner,and biscuits and peppery sausage gravy at daybreak,and a bottle of vodka might be useful, too. II. PA: Gogyohka or Gogyōka Poem Gogyohka form Sisters absorbed in childhoodTracking memories of…
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7 Nov: Quickly’s NovPAD Day 7
Alternate Universe My sister sends me a panoramic photo of water, and I ask Is it cold there – because the shoreline is lily white, and the mountains are, too. And she says, it’s salt not ice. So I type, The mountains, that’s snow, right? And she doesn’t answer that one, so I ask where…
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6 Nov: NovPAD Day 6
I. Poetic Asides: News Unbelievable One day I’d like to wake upwith an empty head, she says. She pulling weeds in the garden,doesn’t look up, just talks to herneighbour whose black dog isimpatient with the conversation. I know. Stuff just comes from nowhere.Yesterday, I woke up thinking abouta conversation I overheard last yearin the pub, says…
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5 Nov: NovPAD Day 5.1
Of Thirst (for Miz Quickly’s: Thirst) You tilta glass of waterinto your throat, the fluid floats for a moment,and then flattens againstyour parched scratch, but your outside layer is thirst, and you can’t graspthe mystery of that. These poems/prose are draft versions, written in participation of Miz Quickly’s prompts and Writers’ Digest (Poetic Asides) November poem-a-day challenge. The aim: to produce a…
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5 Nov: NovPAD Day 5
It’s All About the Water Today I. (Poetic Asides: Peril) to the dreamers, their heartsin peril, let them bemoonstruck, kissed and singing. II. (Miz Quickly: Thirst) Drinking In the Deep how those waters washed over us –water, a spring of poetry in us, and how we thirsted during that long sloping summer – embalmed by…
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4 Nov: NovPAD Day 4
I. Poetic Asides: In the (Blank) In the Squinting Hours It’s 5am.November.Fourth.It’s pitch-dark, except for the tangle of lightthat the curtain lets through. I hear the paperboy whosehair and beard are as greyas a cloud, and who movesas slow as words on a page, and he’s doing his roundson his bone-shaking bike, and there’s a word…
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1.11.22: NovPAD Day 1
I. (for Miz Quickly)Two Oldies in a Luke Warm House To begin we are not poor,but in these times,we live as though we are. It’s morning.I turn on the heating, a mere half hour, and make coffee, it warms from the inside out. We exchange greetings.Good mornings.Enquire about sleep. We speak softly in the quiver…
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GloPoWriMo Day 30: A Cento Poem
Te Dominus Amat (a cento poem) And Te Dominus amat was all you said.Like a dream that makes youwant to go back to sleep. Magnified applesappear and disappearwith shades and echoes of whispered vespers by a hissing lamp.Blue-horned beetles scratchagainst the night sky, and Te Dominus amat was all you said. Lines 1 and 10:…
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GloPoWriMo Day 29: First 48 Hours
A Poem After Frank O’Hara’s Why I am Not a Painter The First 48-Hours of Motherhood this small thing that shrieksand hollers, and shatters my edges it thinks it’s something vitallike rain or heaven what is it trying to say, never sureif it’s mad and sane, or stupid or not does its thoughts stretch as…
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