I once read (and now frequently repeat) that a writer can be defined as someone who finds it impossible to look up one word in a dictionary. So today's ReadWritePoem prompt felt especially apt: Write a poem today about a word trail. Pick a single word and play with its synonyms or mess around with its …
NaPoWriMo 09 – day 16
Noah’s Daughters When he said we must cut off our hair, we said nothing. We’d already stripped the house of its timbers – the rooms' painted skins sagging inwards, membranes that swelled with the wind, the emptied lungs of some mythological beast, drowning in our heavy air. This is another one that I’ll add to the …
NaPoWriMo 09 – day 15
The wonderful people at Read Write Poem have declared NaPoWriMo Wednesdays to be List Poem days, so I get a (comparative) let-off. And today's prompt was especially appropriate: Today’s list is about what you do instead of doing something else. ... Maybe this list poem will be about the ways you procrastinate. Or maybe you avoid …
NaPoWriMo 09 – day 14
3 am and the owls are at it again. From our bed, I can see through the ceiling, through the slates and into the fabric of summer night. Without meaning, I am out of bed at the door in my nightdress, turning the key. The stone wall of our house hugging me close. Astride the …
NaPoWriMo – day 13
Gone of all the mistakes to land myself back in if I could focus on one moment it would be that one his eyebrow lifted, his lip almost curled and the words he could have spat at me laid instead in perfect syllables precious as any jewel I ever wore I have played it again, …
A Dark Feathered Art 