The Body is LonelyCity lights shine outside the windows making an aural gleamabove my tree lined neighborhood. On nocturnal walks I search for Venus and Mars, marvel at The Seven Sisters when they allow a peek,map the moon’s walk across … Continue reading NaPoWriMo 2022 day 20
PropagandaOpen your mind to the possibility that no one is completely rightor completely wrong. Every colorin the rainbow has many shades,every action has potentially differentreactions. Our futures are changeableby which decision we make. You and I don’t see eye to … Continue reading NaPoWriMo 2022 day 19
Nights on the MidwayBorn in a haunting of rhythm and steelA wild lingering skyI wake up there with youRemember a dazzlingand a salty fever on my heart It’s getting harder every day to come up with a poem! I don’t/can’t … Continue reading Napowrimo 2022 day 18
Tea x 2As he raised the tea cup to his lipsI thought how incongruous it lookedin his weatherbeaten hand, fragilevessel dotted with roses & ivyand a handle too small for his finger.But, oh, how gently he cradled itin his palm, … Continue reading NaPoWriMo 2022 day 17
Salt & WindSalty is her tonguewindy is her moodAn ever changing horizon of sea & skyShe roams her world on dunes in the sunset Backlit in gold & grace Thanks to artist John Phandal Law and The Wombwell Rainbow for … Continue reading NaPoWriMo 2022 day 16
Watching a Coral Reef on YouTube The cats and I are fascinated by stripes, speckles, electric blue & yellow, drifting orange, waving pearlescent white, golden dots, glowing eyes under rocks. We are voyeurs to underwater acrobatics, ballets of flipping fins, … Continue reading NaPoWriMo 2022 day 15
I am a sucker for lush language and vivid visuals (and alliteration, lol!) in storytelling. But too much of a good thing can be a distraction. The creative nonfiction stories I bring you today have these two elements in common … Continue reading Favorite Creative Nonfiction 1st quarter 2022
Oh here you are, there’s nothing left to say You’re not supposed to be that way —- The Goo Goo DollsWreckageBury it in the deepest sea.Let it settle among the ruins,sleep in clouds of seaweed.Let it swim through portholes,through barnacled … Continue reading NaPoWriMo 2022 day 13
Our Tunnel of Love(After Bruce Springsteen)Slipping and sliding, tumbling roughThe love we’re inside isn’t enoughWalls gather closer, encircling wingsThat are clipped and unevenStruggling to springBoth of us stretching, doing our bestTo grow inside our bed of unrestRolling and turning, traveling … Continue reading NaPoWriMo 2022 day 12
ParheliaHalos and sundogsBurst the light we seeDarkest reds, deepest violetsSomething breaking everythingIn between refraction, reflectionA wave, a boundary, a thin veilOf cirrus clouds sometimes present,Usually blueOutside the sunA shaft of light developesSlowly fallingThrough the air Again today I combined prompts … Continue reading NaPoWriMo 2022 day 11
