We are bright moons reflected in other people’s skies
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My latest missives & musings
Sorbet of regret
April 29, Napowrimo 2026. The penultimate day and we are prompted to ponder how our past is reflected in our present after reading Jennifer Moxley’s “After Turning the Clocks Back.” We are to try comparing our everyday present life with our past self, using specific details to conjure aspects of our past and present in…
Vacation
April 28, Napowrimo 2026. Today’s inspiration is Victoria Chang’s poem, “The Lovers.” It’s a short and somewhat shocking, possibly surreal that ends with a very direct statement of a “truth.” Its form is six lines, three sentences with a title that works for the poem but is only obliquely related to its text. Our aim…
Toast
April 27, Napowrimo 2026. Today’s prompt is a rather straightforward one that I found testing. We are to write a poem with equal numbers of lines in each stanza and give an instruction to the reader. I’m not much in the mood to tell people what to do right now, so I left it more…
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Missives & Musings 