Category Archives: Do the Work

Last night’s poetry discussion

…stupid as a man who bought his stupid at a two-for-one sale… Continue reading →

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Happy World Poetry Day

Where go all the words •
When the spring comes rushing in, •
Sparkling, her eyes. Continue reading →

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Tonight’s Version of Doing The Work

Tonight at the Sunday Night Writing Group, while everyone else was sprinting away on their fiction, I was plowing through files full of poetry. I made two new files: one for haiku and the other for poems which struck me … Continue reading →

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adventures in blue and yellow – now dry

but this time in paint. They change so much in the first 24 hours and of course scanning is better than handheld photos. First one is a quarter-sheet size – 12″ x 16″, second an eighth or so. Third one … Continue reading →

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View to the East

Looking to the east around here often looks something like this: close trees, distant hills (right now with that just coming into pinky-pre-budding color) and then sky. I’ll take it.

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