Geronimo, My Hero
giraffes run loose through the house with anxious eyes and static electric hairs what else will happen before the paint dries? with...
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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...
Jun 24, 20212 min read
Writer's Block #3
I have a serious case of writer's block, hence my neglegence here with Cosmic Coconut (sad face) . But I'm happy to say that I've found a...
May 23, 20211 min read
Writer's Block #2
Bad Poetry Unfortunately, there's a lot of crappy poetry and sometimes we get stuck with it. But it can be hard to get rid of books. You...
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,...
Apr 21, 20214 min read
Why Lyrics Matter
From childhood to maybe my mid-thirties, I never paid attention to lyrics, even my favorite songs. I was embarrassed because I couldn't...
Mar 20, 20211 min read
After the Winter
Some day, when trees have shed their leaves And against the morning’s white The shivering birds beneath the eaves Have sheltered for...
Mar 16, 20211 min read
banana drunk?
Okay so this is a short, silly post. First...a banana poem lovely bananas bananas are yellow scrumptious and nice you can grow them or...
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
Feb 8, 20212 min read
Writer's Block
I had a conversation with my refined, published far-and-wide poet friend about writer's block. Apparently, since publishing her latest...
Jan 25, 20211 min read
Tree Poem
because they marked you to cut down later i don't know how to be with you my boundaries, rootless, flow so i take pain personally, but i...
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...
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 ...
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