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My latest missives & musings
Tempus Fugit
Today’s quest in Napowrimo 2026. The Tanka is an ancient Japanese poetic form. In contemporary English versions, it often takes the shape of a five-line poem with a 5 / 7 / 5 / 7 / 7 syllable-count – kind of like a haiku that decided to keep going. Today, we’re challenged to write our…
Edvard Munch’s bladder
This year’s preparatory call for NAPOWRIMO is to start by reading Katie Naughton’s poem, “Debt Ritual: Oysters.” Now, we should write our own poem in which we refer to a specific writer or artist (or work of literature/art) and make a declarative statement about want or desire. The poem should be set in a particular,…
Angel
We all enter and leave through doors we never knew and cannot foresee. What we leave in the rooms of our lives in between is what marks us and weighs the balance of how we loved and how much we were loved. Many, many rooms in many, many lives felt the love of this angel. …
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