We are bright moons reflected in other people’s skies
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My latest missives & musings
The Mystery of the missing stanzas
Today we were asked to write a segment of a saga whose style might not be to our poetic taste because they can go on and on. I decided to look at other journeys that may seem to go on and on. For forty days and forty nightsWe headed to the coastTo see the sewage…
Looking into Kaa’s eyes
April 17, Napowrimo 2026. Today we’re asked to respond to another poem. As the prompt’s poet responded to his own work, I thought I’d follow suit. I purposefully wrote this poem to test readers, to make them uncomfortable in their expectation and assumption. I wanted to raise questions about what is socially acceptable in discourse…
Sulphur Flame
I wrote the original of this poem back in 2019. I hoped to explore a number of themes including the duality of language, audience expectation, dark interpretation and how innocence is easily lost in a cynical world. I rewrote it some years later (see second version below) for performance poetry as I thought the original…
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