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My latest missives & musings
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…
Recipe poetica
April 26, Napowrimo 2026. I awake on the last Sunday of the month to be asked to write my Ars Poetica – an explanation of why I write or what I think poetry is about. I have the same reaction to this as when I’m asked to name my favourite band, song, cake, wine, beer,…
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