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My latest missives & musings
Relief
April 25, Napowrimo 2026. Our prompt today – to write a poem in which we use at least three metaphors for a single thing, include an exclamation, ruminate on the definition of a word, and come back in the closing line to the image or idea with which you opened the poem. Mother, please tell…
Bilious semaphore
April 24, Napowrimo 2026. Today we were given the resource of a curated selection of letters written by the English poet Gerard Manley Hopkins, a poet who I admire greatly. His idiosyncratic refusal to stick to preferred poetic structures has without doubt inspired me and follows perfectly behind yesterday’s work on form with the Villanelle.…
A form of meaning
April 22, Napowrimo 2026. Today’s test, write a Villanelle. Although originally a highly structured form, the Villanelle, with its roots buried deep in Italian peasant soil song, has been mutated by poets such as Elizabeth Bishop, Randal Mann, Jennifer Horne and Jennifer Hasegawa. I’ve never been very good with rules, especially strict ones. Resisting form…
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