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Day Nineteen, NaPoWriMo

Deep in snow, walking with cold. •
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Day Eighteen, NaPoWriMo

Hey you don’t have complete control over what goes on in your head, especially late at night! All the old stuff precariously stuck in my head, there’s no telling when it may, and it may, surface at the most inopportune … Continue reading →

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Day Sixteen, NaPoWriMo

I think the wind and sleet got to me last night and this morning. Ready for spring, mother nature. C’mon, you can do it! This morning, amidst wind and sleet appeared a flock huddled and clinging, impaled on branches, dislodged … Continue reading →

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How to paint

When you go out to paint, try to forget what objects you have before you, a tree, a house, a field or whatever. Merely think, here is a little square of blue, here an oblong of pink, here a streak … Continue reading →

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Day Fifteen, NaPoWriMo

There’s nothing that says “Spring!” quite like skunky. Black and white stain on road the blunt, matte smell trailing after the cars. What is that? Oh. Yes. That’s what. Fading at the same speed. It’s the whiff spring keeps on … Continue reading →

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