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Jul 6, 20211 min read
Collaboration with Sylvia Plath
Some of the lines the algorithm generates are quite catchy, others not so much. Still, it helps with writer's block. I mean I feel like...
Jul 3, 20211 min read
Breakup #1
I have more insight now as to why I've had such severe writer's block. I haven't been happy! Not just generally, but specifically about...
May 17, 20211 min read
Dark Sparkle Lives On
in stars and poems and atoms and states of matter - States of Matter by Anna Leahy For any liquid, there are two ways to arrive:...
May 9, 20211 min read
Friendship
i do not want to write not at all, not even a little. in fact, i feel quite over it, thanks. seriously so done. do not want this. ...
May 5, 20211 min read
I Just Saw a F——g Rainbow!
No, I f——g didn't. But I did see this: which reminded me of this: A Poem about Pain I can feel myself slipping away, fading away,...
Feb 27, 20211 min read
February Call and Response Poem
February By Jack Collom It is all kind of lovely that I know what I attend here now the maturity of snow has settled around forming a...
Feb 11, 20211 min read
There is Nothing Quieter
Than softly falling snow Fussing over every flake And making sure It won't wake someone. by Charles Simic
Jan 11, 20211 min read
No Hemlock Rock (don’t kill yourself)
By Jennifer Michael Hecht Don’t kill yourself. Don’t kill yourself. Don’t. Eat a donut, be a blown nut. That is, if you’re going to kill...
Jan 11, 20211 min read
Auto-Lullaby By Franz Wright
I 'think' Auto-Lullaby suits this week (and last) perfectly. Think of anything other than the news when possible. Think of   a sheep...
Dec 12, 20201 min read
free from long shadows
sunshine drapes porous form on the steps of the abandoned church where rosemary bush, piles of dead leaves caught in the corner between...
Nov 26, 20201 min read
little prayer
by Danez Smith, from Don’t Call Us Dead let ruin end here let him find honey where there was once a slaughter let him enter the lion’s...
Nov 19, 20201 min read
Call & Response Poems #2
Pietà by Kevin Young I hunted heaven for him. No dice. Too uppity, it was. Not enough music, or dark dirt. I begged the earth empty of...
Nov 1, 20201 min read
Call & Response Poems #1
A Center By Ha Jin You must hold your quiet center, where you do what only you can do. If others call you a maniac or a fool, just let...
Oct 25, 20201 min read
"You and I Saw Hawks Exchanging the Prey" - James Wright
They did the deed of darkness In their own mid-light. He plucked a gray field mouse Suddenly in the wind. The small dead fly alive   ...
Oct 15, 20201 min read
"Daffodils" by Henri Cole
Courtesy of The New Yorker Sometimes I arrive with my buds closed, and I am mistaken for scallions, but if you cut a half inch from my...
Oct 13, 20201 min read
"Beatific"
by Tracy K. Smith I watch him bob across the intersection, Squat legs bowed in sweatpants. ​ I watch him smile at nobody, at our traffic...
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