NaPoWriMo Day 4

Poem prompt: "Today’s daily resource is the online exhibitions page of the International Folk Art Museum. I have a particular predilection for folk art, in which the strange and boisterous so often finds itself going hand-in-hand with practical objects of daily use. But the museum also showcases work of other sorts, like 100 Aspects of the Moon,…

NaPoWriMo Day 3

Poem prompt: "Today’s daily resource is the online art collection of South Korea’s National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art. My own art history education is woefully catch-as-catch can, and the little I know of modern art is very much focused on American and European artists. So it was a treat to browse through a collection…

NaPoWriMo Days 1+2

Playing catch-up today. I almost forgot what month it was! So often with the daily grind, I get into a routine rut. Such is adult life. Recent distractions I've found to help me survive reality: binging House MD on Hulu, learning how to play Magic: The Gathering (to appease my husband, so we can spend…

Surprise Announcement!

Activity here has died down a bit on my part due to all of my attention being diverted to BlueSky, the new Twitter/X alternative. It really is as nice as they say (at least for now) and I'm able to market my work with a wider reach. I've posted a few poems there that I…

They’re Praying to Apollo

Most people can't see they're praying to Apollo by another name. Gee, sus: quite suspicious indeed, and the sun answers every time with articulate manipulation, spewing lies with lyres. When the nameless multitude of unwilling women turns the other cheek to leave him behind, he seizes their hair as twigs to break and wedge deep…

You Can’t Know Until You Do It

Mama Bear asks how we can know childfree is the way to be for ourselves without experiencing what would be our children, but it's not bleu cheese, Mrs. Bear. I can't gag and tell the waiter to take it back. The waiter would just laugh and say "you made your choice, now choke and keep…