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Poem a Day Challenge #7

Laurie’s prompt: a 10×20 I’m late to this one and I ended up feeling rushed. However, I think there’s something here that I will want to revisit when I can from this into something else. Somewhere along the road I stopped using first person singular. I became we. We got married, we got pregnant, weContinue reading “Poem a Day Challenge #7”

Poem a Day Challenge #6

Laurie asks us to focus on a color Yellow is my nemesisthe color of my jealousy. She glides through the day lithe and loving like a sit-com mother. I watch, transfixed, as shebrightens every roomshe touches, her laughlingers warm like the smells of drying bedsheets. In my quilts I have tried to use her, includeContinue reading “Poem a Day Challenge #6”

Poem a Day Challenge #5

A sestina, Laurie? A sestina? This flipping, flopping, churning form that reminds me of a taffy pulling machine, constantly pulling and turning inwards? THAT’S what you want us to write today? Fine, fine. I’m FINE. I was not happy. Every day was different, yet the same. The routine that provided securitykept me – us –Continue reading “Poem a Day Challenge #5”

Poem a Day Challenge #4

Laurie gives us the start and end – we provide the juicy bits. I do not have anything to say about my bodythe world already gives me reasons to doubt my body. I have weighed between three-fifty and one-sixty and eachspectrum end all people feel free to shout at my body. I have run 5ks,Continue reading “Poem a Day Challenge #4”

Poem a Day Challenge #3

Today’s theme is transportation It’s rare these days that I drive aloneand that’s really for the best.There’s a muscle memory that clickswith my seatbelt and if I’m not carefulI find myself on cruise control andblow past my exit, traveling to aspring night from high school, througha college snowstorm, a summerafternoon alonealonealone.My home in my rearviewContinue reading “Poem a Day Challenge #3”

Poem a Day Challenge #2

Laurie’s prompt today is bird-themed. You have come to me as a hummingbirdthree times now.Once for joy, once for strength, oncefor hope.Each time I have felt your loved and it overwhelmedme, knocking airout of my lungs and I have gaspedeach time I realized that it was you – I feltunworthy.But you have loved all yourContinue reading “Poem a Day Challenge #2”

Poem a Day Challenge #1

As prompted by Laurie MacDiarmid, beloved writing professor. She invites us to participate in this challenge with her. Here is mine. David, do you remember the letterswe wrote a thousand miles and a lifetime ago? Before husbands and wives and liveswith kids and pets, mortgages and paymentsfor windows? We’ve always been better on paperseparate fromContinue reading “Poem a Day Challenge #1”

On Wednesdays We Made Art

My mom has been encouraging me to write about my time during the Stay At Home order and distance learning. As we near the two year mark of the introduction to Covid and it’s been almost six months since I’ve reclaimed my dining room table from the impromptu classroom it became, I find myself loathContinue reading “On Wednesdays We Made Art”

How does your garden grow

I’m always impatient with my garden in May. It’s so silly for me to be this impatient because I really do understand how much work is being done in places I can’t observe. Deep in the dark soul seeds are germinating, roots are growing and expanding, energy is building up and up and up toContinue reading “How does your garden grow”

Letter to Fred #3

Thursday, January 28th, 2021Martinez, CA 4:58 pm 53° and overcastMonthly rain: 1.75″ Year to date 1.75″ Dear Freddie, Today is the 100th day of your school year. Biden has been sworn in as president, there was no federal vaccine roll out plan in place, a bunch of internet shit lords have caused a whole lotContinue reading “Letter to Fred #3”