Archive for 2010
NaPoWriMo Day 6: Sushi and Steak
Tuesday, April 6th, 2010
Sushi is a dish made of fish, if you wish, / but a poem is another thing entirely…
NaPoWriMo Day 5: Commuted Sentence
Monday, April 5th, 2010
northbound interstate traffic slowing like circulation in hardened arteries these metallic corpuscles crowd each other in desperation for a quadruple bypass or at least a stent…
NaPoWriMo Day 4: Rewind
Sunday, April 4th, 2010
Death. / Last gasp. / Words of parting. / Walking through sunset hours. / Living, working, laughing, and loving. / Walking through sunrise hours. / Words of greeting. / First breath. / Birth.
NaPoWriMo Day 3: Early April in Hazel Dell
Saturday, April 3rd, 2010
Clouds— / bunched unevenly across the cold sky, / some brooding black with heavy pails, / some towering in bright relief— / bring wet announcements to thawing ears…
NaPoWriMo Day 2: Water of Life
Friday, April 2nd, 2010
Scarlet missives from my heart / whisper of liquid inhalation, / washing hot over thirsty cells, / and pounding through tunnels of flesh.
NaPoWriMo Day 1: Larval Dragons
Thursday, April 1st, 2010
These naiads that flit below the surface / soon sprout wings to fly above it. / Oh, to trade seas like that.
Matryoshkas
Friday, January 15th, 2010
And so I spring out from my mother / just as she sprung out of hers / in this enduring cascade of women: / We are born, we expand, and we give birth.