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My latest missives & musings
Puppy Love
April 22, Napowrimo 2026. Jaswinder Bolina’s poem “Mood Ring” imagines the speaker as both himself and an interior being. It’s quite silly . . . and not silly at the same time. A sort of “serious fun.” Today, we’re challenge to write our own poem in which the speaker is in dialogue with themselves. This…
Sue Brickay’s gift
April 21, Napowrimo 2026. Three weeks in and our daily test is to play around with the theme of our or other’s nicknames. I very rarely went by a pseudonym and loathe it when anyone shortens my given name – I was given it for a reason and that reason is good enough for me.…
In Baku we trust
April 20, Napowrimo 2026. Today we are to try writing a poem that uses an animal that shows up in myths and legends as a metaphor for some aspect of a contemporary person’s life. We should include one spoken phrase. I looked up mythical beasts and discovered Japan’s ancient Baku, a creature made up of…
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