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Day 24: NaPoWriMo 2021
for Miz Quickly’s Day 24 prompt: Merit The Merit of Parental Advice I earned 32 Girl Scout badges,made 1st class scout twice, but my mother said,her finger poking at me, You better hope you can findsomeone to marry. Poetic Asides Response Poem In Response to Atwood’s Three Desk Objects What minutes tick and what hours…
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Day 17.1: NaPoWriMo 2021
Miz Quickly’s Day 17.1 Process Note: This rewrite is for Lisa who was sad that I omitted the bit about the cat. But then it all felt slightly unseasoned, so I added a sinister wolf. Now it just needs three little pigs (I’ll credit Vinny for his subliminal message). Crouching in the Bedsheets Winter.Time to…
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dVerse An Ekphrastic Poem
Walking In The Shoes of Blackberrying It’s the 3rd stanza of Blackberrying.That last hedgerow is behind her,a milk bottle filled with blackberries, and the bite of sea air funnelsa phantom laundry wind thatslaps her face. Terns and gulls hook at the air,and salt marsh sheep scatterlike chalky clouds on green hills. She walks along a…
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Day 23: NaPoWriMo
Day 23: Miz Quickly & PA, and a Haibun for dVerse Poets. Like Unplugging I. (for Miz Quickly & PA) Just A Few Desires, yes, a few likeseeing brilliance rising offthe sea, morning sky that’s an aquamarine-holiday colour,and white-dashed beachesso bright that your eyes sting, and silence,yes, silence from radio voices.And I still want sex…
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Day 22: NaPoWriMo 2021
Day 22: Miz Quickly’s Impossible prompt and PA’s Animal prompt Haunted Fog I.Blind Fog The cliffs drop offinto whiteness,a blue and grey brewof updrafts and silk.The air, it feelshaunted by fog.That chill,is proof of it all. II.Delirium Fog Four crows on the lawn,appeared from nowhere.Stepped through someinterior door, and broughta delirium fog with them.…
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Day 21: NaPoWriMo 2021
Day 21: Miz Quickly’s Emotion and PA’s Ekphrasis Poem The Postman’s Daughter There was a time of innocence.A child’s care with tinsel and looping bobbles on branch ends, but sky always overclouded, darkened with flaws of grey.A postman’s daughter knows — Christmas is not a happy time. A postman’s feet are worlds of pain. A delivery of misery…
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Day 20: NaPoWriMo 2021
Miz Quickly’s Day 20“Important” and PA’s (blank) You prompt I.Autumn Song I hear red-rust hedgerows, sooty leaves, and daylight that only exists for the sun to snag and spin to gold. How long have I been adrift in autumn’s wordless vapours? II. Was It You? Hello, did you touch my shoulder?…
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A Wayra for dVerse Poets
dVerse Poets: Wayra Form Ten Minutes After Dinner (draft version 1) He is in a sleepof see-saw, he breathes softly,a rise and fall of his chest.A light rumbling comesfrom his throat. I turn off the moon. Turn Off the Light (draft version 2) He is in a sleep of see-saw, he breathes softly, a rise and fall…
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Day 19: NaPoWriMo 2021
A Bad Day for Smoke and Mirrors I. When Plato said, Beauty lies in the eye of the beholder … he forgot about mirrors. II. And who said Only good comes from self-revelation. My frame is tipsy with gravity and in need of scaffolding, my knees crack when I stand, a noise to wake the…
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Day 18: NaPoWriMo 2021
Day 18: Miz Quickly’s Part 3 and PA’s Thursday prompt Genre: A Still Life with Dead Game, Fruits and Vegetables in a Market by Frans Snyders c. 1614 This is the Thursday market.It’s a voice sticky, thick and red.A still life of lifeless animals,dead birds and gluey fruit.Flies rise and settle on skeweredcorpses of feathered…
It's Still Life 