Category Archives: In the neighborhood

NaPoWriMo 2026, Day 20

In the quiet yard
a pile of feathers, yellow, black… Continue reading

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NaPoWriMo 2026, Day 14

Today i set up a text replacement shortcut that replaces the letters “h a ha h a” (no spaces, just three ha’s strung together – couldn’t type them without spaces or it would trigger the shortcut ha ha ha) with a long string of ha ha ha’s. Continue reading

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NaPoWriMo 2026, Day 13

…a stream of hungry mouths, hungry
for green, for sweetness, for that first
delicious bite of soon-summer… Continue reading

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NaPoWriMo 2026 Day 7

you might be asking yourself
what does one do now while waiting
for things to fall apart today
while we are waiting to declare
just how crazy we’ve let things get Continue reading

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NaPoWriMo 2026 Day 4

Is there such a thing as live-reporting in sonnet form? I guess there is now! I rode high in the bright tow truck looking around my neighborhood while the tattooed driver drove on watching messages popping up we descended from … Continue reading

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