Category Archives: the creative process

Day 24 NaPoWriMo 2022

sweater from the car warm from spending the day there now I’m the warm one was warm in my hands warm going over my head warm as a lover blue cooling twilight i’m wearing back to the house the sun’s … Continue reading

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Day 22 NaPoWriMo 2022

Took the long way home from getting a bag of sunflower seeds today. The birdies seem to have forgiven me already. Two yellow rivers Echoing forsythia Along curvy road Two yellow rivers Curving in time to the road Forsythia time … Continue reading

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Day 21 NaPoWriMo 2022

Often there is a day or two in April where I write a poem but don’t share it. Hasn’t happened yet but this was close. i will make a place in my heart, a quiet place where we both may … Continue reading

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In the front yard

Perhaps you’re wondering how much longer on the daffodils friends, but I look forward to them every year and it seems a short season to me. I am glad that they survived the snow yesterday and that today it was … Continue reading

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Day 18 NaPoWriMo 2022

Today was warm, sort of. The morning was a write off. I drove over to New Lebanon and stopped at Hand Hollow. Things looked brown and green seemed far off even thouogh it’s *right there* – so close. Not yet. … Continue reading

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