Tag Archives: TakingTimetoLook

NaPoWriMo 2026, Day 28

…learn lessons of brief white petals
see today’s hills flipping ahead. Continue reading

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NaPoWriMo 2026, Day 25

Sometimes you need to pour the coffee and close the door. I already hear the distractions calling: you need birdseed! you bought soup makings! you said you were going to make and freeze lasagna! The end of april drawing near … Continue reading

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NaPoWriMo 2026, Day 20

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

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NaPoWriMo 2026, Day 16

along the driveway, in the woods
yellow daffodils here and there
a few are gifts left by the folks
who lived here before, and who died Continue reading

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NaPoWriMo 2026 Day 15

wrinkled with sleep I am waiting,
listening to the crescendo —
water coming to a quick boil… Continue reading

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