Hairy mammals
I’m on a journey whose destination is unknown.
Walking along a channel of pasture.
An embankment blocks my view to the left.
In the distance dark mountains.
Furry cows, bulls, bison, and hogs appear ahead.
Afraid to pass them, I stare,
but keep trekking.
The animals turn their heads to watch me,
grazing as I leave them behind.
Walking alone.
Suddenly I’m [...]
Where’d he go?
Fishbait disappeared after eleven months of blogging, his site meter off the charts. Since his blog remained, the unanswered questions bottlenecked: “Dude, where are you?” and “FB, when you coming back?”
We loved him for his smooth editorials on fashion, history, Linux, and RSS feeds. Why did he vanish?
A rumor circulated that [...]
My little patient
Today is Confession Tuesday at the Polkadot Witch. Yesterday Witchy posted a free-write on fear, and it became the draft of a possible poem. I’m carrying on her theme here with my own unedited free-write. Caveat emptor - reader beware! Just kidding. The only thing I’m wary of revealing here is just [...]
h
His arm stretched beyond the clouds,
higher than we had ever
held our gaze. We wondered if
he would raise the other arm,
hoisting his mountainous self
heavenward. But he only
hollered hi! to us below.
What I saw in Michelle’s photo was a backwards h! visit Michelle’s site, Poefusion, to see her creation.
Lotus flowers, by mariacristina
a circle
To draw a circle I start with a dot
that grows until the ends meet face to face.
A universe held inside an inkblot.
Seen from Saturn the Earth’s a tiny spot,
a bit of blue spinning in outer space.
Our planet started with a dot,
a black-hole implosion that got too hot,
a circle no [...]
Deborah Barlow’s site, Slow Muse, is one of my favorites, because she reveals the inner workings of her artistic mind. Barlow is a visual artist who works in sumptuous layers of color, and she has the soul of a poet. Slow Muse offers up snippets of essays on the works of a wide variety of [...]
Dream 17: 100 words on no exit
I’m trying to leave an underground parking garage in my car. Because orange cones block the exit lane, I’m forced to go down the entrance lane. I need to return to a school to pick up my friend, but I’m not sure how to get there since the [...]
Photo credit: “Moon over city” by megpie
Dandelion moon
Dandelion moon, you shed white seeds
on the broken glass of my inner star.
Though your beams touch me cold and distant,
I’m dancing with the ghost that you are.
Minutes cohere on the clock of night –
you immerse me in light, ascendant.
I’m dancing with the ghost that you are,
though [...]
Mom talk
She stood in my foyer, her belly trussed up under a striped knit top. Her hair perched on her head, curls spray painted in place.
“We don’t believe in evolution,” she said.
I gave her a Mona Lisa smile while holding the door, wondering if she was scanning my table for bibles.
Her son thumped downstairs [...]
If you’re interested in poetic forms, head over to readwritepoem for Tom’s post on the villanelle. I wrote the prompt for this week, combining math with poetry.
My inspiration for the math prompt came from a Georgia Writers Association poetry reading and workshop, featuring Earl S. Braggs. He read one of his most recent poems about [...]
