Options
Written with my Thursday night writing group with the prompts: rock the test, I prefer trees, fewer and fewer options for a detour, sad frowny face, rose-colored mess, hunting skills, [...]
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May, 2025
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May, 2025
A Gift
A Gift Preacher Williams waited till dusk before he set off in his old Toyota because he didn’t want to be seen. He even drove the last mile without headlights [...]
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May, 2025
Harbinger
Trudy dreamed that she found three red hens nested beneath the camellia bush that grew outside her kitchen window. They were serene little birds, chuckling quietly together in the gray [...]
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May, 2025
No Sugar Added
On April Fool’s Day, Tom thought it would be funny to replace the sugar in the sugar bowl with salt, and yeah, it was pretty funny to see the sour [...]
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Apr, 2025
Delta Breeze
To conclude National Poetry Month, I feel blessed to share with you this poem. I wrote it many years ago, a love letter to my home town, and I was [...]
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Apr, 2025
Easter Broom
Another poem for National Poetry Month The fabric of night unwinds like a bolt of dark blue velvet across a clean white sheet of daylight. At Equinox the corners of [...]
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Apr, 2025
Harvest
It's April, and that means National Poetry Month! Here is a poem I wrote many years ago, when I was a young Feminist, invoking the Moon Goddess to guide women [...]
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Apr, 2025
Spring 2025
I thank my Thursday night writing group for creating such a safe space so I might write this. There are a few prompts in here, most notably "heal darkness" which [...]
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Mar, 2025
Popcorn
The prompt for this piece was to anthropomorphize a smell, a taste, or an inanimate object. This is what “popped” into my head! Have you noticed the smell of salt [...]
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Mar, 2025
Plum: an Equinox Story
Plum: an Equinox Story She calls herself Plum and she lives on a patch of dirt at the edge of a winding road near the river levee. She lives amid [...]