It's the weekend yettoday was spent finishinghomework. I am beat.
NaPoWriMo 2021 – Day 9
Today's prompt is to write a to-do list poem. The exercise was supposed to be light and fun, but for some reason it brought back bad memories of when I was 13. So, I decided to excise those memories via poem. 1. Scream into a pillow.2. Scream harder until the sound snarled in your throatbecomes... Continue Reading →
NaPoWrimo 2021 – Day 8
Off prompt. I snagged myself a big-girl job in the south last week and have been looking for office-appropriate short-sleeved garments via online consignment shops. I'm convinced online shopping is even more soul crushing than writing a dissertation. I gazed upon the rows and rowsof clothing sorted by the price—discarded garments, worn and sold,that, despite... Continue Reading →
NaPoWriMo 2021-Day 7
Today's prompt is to write a shadorma, "a six-line, 26-syllable poem (or a stanza – you can write a poem that is made of multiple shadorma stanzas). The syllable count by line is 3/5/3/3/7/5." I'm finding that I can't add additional white space between words (well, I can, but it doesn't translate to the published... Continue Reading →
NaPoWriMo 2021 – Day 6
Today's prompt: "Go to a book you love. Find a short line that strikes you. Make that line the title of your poem. Write a poem inspired by the line. Then, after you’ve finished, change the title completely." Writing in my office, I turned to Haladyna and Rodriguez's "Developing and Validating Test Items" (in my... Continue Reading →
NaPoWriMo 2021- Day 5
I tried to follow today's prompt using Adrian C. Louis' "Peaches" (which I've transcribed below) but wound up writing an erasure. I probably should have picked a different poem and a different poet; any modification to his work is just a bastardization. The world lost a great talent. Three peaches: my fingertipsmouth hymen. Memoryof dust... Continue Reading →
NaPoWriMo 2021 – Day 4
Today's prompt: "In honor of the always-becoming nature of poetry, I challenge you today to select a photograph from the perpetually disconcerting @SpaceLiminalBot, and write a poem inspired by one of these odd, in-transition spaces." From @SpaceLiminalBot You say to me, “The only way to knowis to perform a biopsy.”You are surprised that I say yes,that... Continue Reading →
NaPoWriMo 2021 – Day 3
Off prompt today but inspired by clayandbranches, whose Day 3 poem explores her dislike of the word "love". I took that piece as permission to rail against "honey", which is a poetic pet peeve of mine. Tentatively titled Unless you're my husband, who buys honey by the gallon. Do not suffer me onemore poem that... Continue Reading →
NaPoWriMo 2021 – Day 2
Today's prompt: "In the world of well-known poems, maybe there’s no gem quite so hoary as Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken.” Today, I’d like to challenge you to write a poem about your own road not taken – about a choice of yours that has “made all the difference,” and what might have happened... Continue Reading →
NaPoWriMo 2021 – Day 1
And NaPoWriMo begins! After a grueling 2020, I'm looking forward to what Maureen has in store for us this year and, more importantly, to reading what everyone will create from it. Today's prompt: " I’d like to challenge you to write a poem inspired by this animated version of “Seductive Fantasy” by Sun Ra and his Arkestra.... Continue Reading →
dragging the lake 