An Orange Room On a Blue Planet
Summer rerun time: enjoy!! Written with my Thursday night group with the prompts: bulgaricus, in an orange room, why is she crying, the farm, he palmed his meds, there is no [...]
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Jul, 2024
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Jul, 2024
Notice What You Notice
Time for a summer rerun! Enjoy! Written with my Thursday night writing group with the prompts: don’t go there, quiet enough to hear your own heart beat, everybody knows your [...]
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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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Feb, 2023
Maybe Next Year
Written with the prompts: a former student, who is the dreamer and where is the dream, a quick call, a red balloon landed next to him, a river, lived a [...]
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Jun, 2022
Yearning
Written with my Thursday night group with the prompts: 34 states, a black silk frog, blue silk dress, bruised knees, the strange sensation of of wearing someone else’s clothes, close [...]
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Mar, 2021
The Sun Speaks
I wrote this with a prompt that urged me to speak with the Sun. That reminded me of Frank O'Hara's "Talking to the Sun on Fire Island." I think O'Hara's [...]
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Jun, 2020
Malleable Memory
Written with my Thursday night group with the prompts: in a clearing by a river, driving to San Francisco in the rain, under the bleachers, out of touch with the [...]
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May, 2020
Continued Sheltering, part three
Greetings! If you’re a regular reader, you know the past two weeks I’ve suggested some prayers that I’ve found helpful, and I continue to encourage everyone to write prayers and [...]
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Sep, 2019
Peacock Dreams
In her dream, Charlotte forgot that her husband was dead. Her dreaming self did seem to know that Rob was absent. In this imagined space, he had left to get [...]
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May, 2019
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake (a book review)
Warning: spoilers ahead. I’ll wave a red flag when we get close, but stay alert. This book made me very sad. I don’t know why I’m surprised, it’s right there [...]