30. pink bouquets litter April’s mound poem’s month is put to bed * 29. it’s not lack but desire for novel a need of new words * 28. handful of magnolia blooms full size on a sapling one well-endowed tween * 27. I’ve been writing better’s words tracing their paths a devotee in mimicry * [...]
Posts from ‘April, 2010’
April 30: Save the Frogs Day
Yes, yes! It’s the last day of National Poetry Month and the last day of NaPoWriMo. But it is also “Save the Frogs Day” tomorrow! Join the Center for Biological Diversity’s campaign by contacting Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and demand full Endangered Species Act protection for all candidates, including 12 of our most threatened amphibians. [...]
crazy fun
This Friday, the last day of National Poetry Month, I’m being interviewed by Nicole Vulcan for KBOO’s Bread and Roses show. It’s live around 6:15pm (ish). We’ll be talking about combinations of Portland, women, poetry & Big Tent Poetry! I get to read a couple of poems, too. (So I need to figure out which [...]
actually on prompt
Ferocious package, all tooth and nail Regards her subjects with careful Intent taking measure skill and will Devout in her affection and demands Adamant voice fervent if geriatric Sets her head in my muted Palm as we dream separate night skies Insights into intimate workings of birds Revealed when she dissects each Individual character I would [...]
back to the booth
It’s been a long while since I stepped into the booth. The end of a crazy April is a good time to confess to a few things: ~~ I offended a relative about 18 months ago with something I wrote for a now-defunct 365-day project (I had no idea they read anything I wrote). As [...]
Riffing on Hawking and the Prudence of the Spanish Church
Riffing on Hawking and the Prudence of the Spanish Church Is intelligence hostile to life? Humanity has put itself on the edge of its own destruction creates nuclear bombs and other weapons mass destruction alien organisms lurk but they do not last long they blow themselves up soon after they discover that E=mc2 civilizations take [...]
flailing about for ideas
Charles P. Strite …………..a toast Few make the place you do sitting on my kitchen counter, polished wide-mouthed, sleek and retro yours weren’t the special wires that heat without setting flame Elemental — what else could it be? Not a filament, related to firmament, at least in my head, dazzled awake to smell your gift [...]
when tomorrow is today
The doors are open. Ahead of schedule. How’s that for a whacky circus? Go poke around. See what you think. You can critique, too. It’s okay. The first prompt publishes May 3rd. Who says Mondays aren’t won’t be fun? (Special thanks to Carolee Sherwood & Jill Crammond Wickham for wearing red-noses, with aplomb.)
something new!
Coming soon!! As in tomorrow. Heh!
spring
(Click through a couple of times to get to larger images.) Birds quiet tend invisible nests blossoms lose their hold * * * “We treat them like decorative objects in our gardens and homes, arranging and positioning them to please our aesthetic sensibilities. However, plants are alive and aware, reacting at speeds too slow for [...]
