Shine Down
I’m told these prompts are all band names, but I’ve not heard of most of them! If you like this, please share it with your younger friends who may be [...]
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Jun, 2024
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May, 2024
Vibrations
One day my notebook leapt out of my back pack while I was searching for my keys. It lay on the sidewalk watching foot traffic and pigeons, frustrated that I [...]
17
May, 2024
Voice of My Body
Written with the prompts: mission statement, this is the voice of my body, but then I might not, worth the wait, you’ll thank me later, was I wrong, tap tap [...]
10
May, 2024
Flats and Sharps
Maya wears dove gray ballet flats as she glides across a glassy smooth hardwood floor. In another country, her sister Mary is barefoot, piecing her way across a black [...]
3
May, 2024
Pockets of Resistance
Written with my Thursday night group with the prompts: four seasons, scarcity, paradoxical, starts working instantly, 3,000 miles, money, it’s a breeze, pockets of resistance, until I begin to write, [...]
12
Apr, 2024
Franz Marc’s The Fox
In honor of National Poetry Month, I'm sharing some ekphrastic poetry I wrote this past year. Ekphrastic poems are written about works of art, most often visual art like paintings [...]
29
Mar, 2024
Adventure in a Labyrinth
Last week I was generously invited to join a group of friends who have been meeting every year for decades to whale watch at Point Arena Lighthouse. On our third [...]
22
Mar, 2024
At the Border
When Jenna arrived at the border, she was surprised to find a guard at the gate. His jaw was square and his lips were pinched into a straight line, as [...]
15
Mar, 2024
Paper Birds
Striding through the airport this morning, Destiny notes the typical presence of newspapers—Wall Street Journal, New York Times, USA Today—held aloft by focused readers in pin-stripes and gray flannel, wing-tips [...]
8
Mar, 2024
Dust Mote
I am a dust mote, a speck, a barely perceptible particle, created, not from nothing, but from destruction— the breakdown of something large into something tiny— tattered leaves crushed blossoms [...]