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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Apr, 2025
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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 [...]
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Mar, 2025
Why We Were Brought Together
Why We Were Brought Together Isabel’s daughter Allison had named the puppy Hannah Montana after that dreadful Miley Cyrus character, and of course Isabel was okay with it. After all, [...]
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Feb, 2025
White Violets
The prompt for this was to use the names of Oscar winning movies. I chose The Shape of Water In late February Marcella found a meager crop of unevenly spaced [...]
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Feb, 2025
I Didn’t Know He Was the Devil
These prompts are from Two Sylvias Newsletter: “How Does Your Garden Grow?”-flower prompts!—bleeding heart, devil’s backbone, cupid’s dart, angels’ trumpet, fairy bells, lamb’s ear, hen and chicks, sneezeweed, ghost pipe, [...]
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Jan, 2025
Spool
Written with my Thursday night group with the prompts: do you have any new memories?, he was not ready, dream, we the people, but first the table of contents, he [...]
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Jan, 2025
Believe in Magic? How Could I Not?
The prompt for this poem came from Suleika Jaouad's Isolation Journal. The inspiration is a poem from Dean Young called Belief in Magic and I've stolen his first line for [...]
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Jan, 2025
Leave It To The Bees
Written with my Thursday night group with the prompts: face, United States, queen, xerox, tundra, nectarine, hail, cat, vermin, isolation Jenna stretches out in a small patch of sunlight [...]
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Dec, 2024
Our Lady of Guadalupe
Today is the Feast Day of Our Lady of Guadalupe. As you may know she is one of the many manifestations of Mary, Mother of Jesus, who has deigned [...]
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Nov, 2024
Lost and Found
As Thanksgiving approaches, I decided to share again this story from last year, a tale of abundance, gratitude, joy. Susan lost her glasses one morning, early before seven o’clock, while [...]