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
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Apr, 2024
How to Find the Muse
Here's a fun, spring-time poem to finish up National Poetry Month. Think about the sky.It’s a new blue tableclothand a big hipped womanhas carelessly dribbledgobs of whipped creamall over it.There [...]
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Apr, 2024
Rivers, inspired by Georgia O’Keefe’s Chama River, Ghost Ranch 1937
Because April is National Poetry Month, I've decided to share with you some ekphrastic poems I've written this past year. Ekphrastic poems are written about works of art, most often [...]
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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 [...]
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Apr, 2024
The Arrival of Spring in Normandy, 2020, after David Hockney
Hey, it's April!--National Poetry Month--and I'd like to share with you some ekphrastic poems I wrote this past year. I encountered prompts to write ekphrastic poems in more than one [...]
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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 [...]
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Mar, 2024
The Secret to Rubber-Soled Shoes
The Secret to Rubber-Soled Shoes The secret to rubber-soled shoes is that they are often imbued with the ghosts of deceased dogs, dogs who were loyal and eager to serve, [...]
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Dec, 2023
When the Time Travel Agent Asks When and Where
I choose San Francisco because I miss ocean air. I’ve been sleep walking in a dusty valley but the air in San Francisco is cold and saline. When you walk [...]
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Apr, 2023
Goose Girl
I posted this poem just a few years ago. But I like it, so I'm going to finish April with it. Enjoy! St. Jude showed up at my door today [...]
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Apr, 2023
Love, Our Subject
A story poem I wrote a long time ago. #NationalPoetryMonth Love, Our Subject In the multitude of cells now stretching and dividing In my womb I carry the genetic memories [...]