Category Archives: Do the Work

Things found on the way to something else.

Here is the Wudang horsetail whisk form: • Turn around the body • Yellow dragon covers its head Continue reading

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NaPoWriMo 2024 Day 5

How lucky I am to be able • to fill the bird feeders • while the chickadees and cardinals • whistle waiting in the shrubs. Continue reading

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NaPoWriMo 2024 Day 3

then let me go first • wednesday is hard Continue reading

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Day 2 NaPoWriMo 2024

This familiar paper cup • This brown cardboard sleeve… Continue reading

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NaPoWriMo 2024 Day 1

Mom and I are having a busy week of appointments and such but tonight we listened to Ada Limon host three other poets: Kevin Young, Patricia Smith and Ilya Kaminsky and an actor, Crystal Dickinson reading from her newly released … Continue reading

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