Together

Oh to be able to taste again

I have forgotten what breakfast tastes like

In the sunlight

Hard to tell which part of the body is singing

Too cute

I search the day for pretty words

Coffee coffee buzzbuzzbuzz

So it is settled

This is how the end comes

It is as hot as Texas

There is something about a Queen

I sleep deeply under the strawberry moon

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dVerse prompt to take first line of first poem written in each month of 2022. I wasn’t very prolific this year so had to snitch a couple of lines.

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Lost Poem

It was obvious

I was never there

accusations

were that I was

since I was not lost

found my way around

knew the depth

of a verse

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Italics are titles of podcasts in this prompt from dVerse

Say the Word

I went out to the garden

looking for spelling bees

there were many beside me—

a bumble bee entered foxglove’s bell

it was not the one I seek

then one buzzed my head

anxious at my presence

to say the word

say the word

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dVerse prompt for a quadrille using the word spell

Word Dissonance

I search the day for pretty words

turrets of rain pummel them into the garden

where they remain until rot comes

maggots eat into their bouma

maggot grows fat from majuscules

creep over minuscules

chomp ascenders and descenders

lying there

in the riddled corpse of a word

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dVerse prompt to write a poem of dissonance

Words

Today

words

were

not

enough

to

write

a

poem

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NaPoWriMo Day 23 prompt to be brief but on point

Memory

It’s just me collecting words from memory to bring forth a future.

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dVerse prompt on memory combined with writing my first American sentence.

Fall

three dots on my phone

wiped the mud with my sweater

rainy season now

Middleness

crucial to finding the way is this there is no beginning or end only a lingering in the middle caught in the middle of nothing and nothing with no end marks and capital letters no space whiteness on a paper where a word isn’t and silence takes over just a blob of words on a page of middleness

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dVerse prompt on prosy using Jo Harjo’s line Crucial to finding the way is this: there is no beginning or end. combined exercise with Ursula K. Lê Guin’s Steering the Craft Exercise 2 to write with no punctuation

Word Waltz

One two three

One two three

One two three

Please don’t flee

Come and see

He and she

Dancing free

One two three

One two three

In Robert Bly’s Hometown

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remember the sound of your voice

reading my poem to the class

here something happens

poetry is making something happen

don’t be content with just words

make them leap off the page

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dVerse prompt to write about or to a favorite poet. I visited Madison, Minnesota a few weeks ago and went to the little house where Robert Bly wrote and it contains much of his library.

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