Hays Travelogue

Today’s Read Write Poem prompt was to write a how-to poem. I think the poems are disintegrating a bit in this final stretch. How to Survive Cubicle Life (adapted from Paper Folding Wallet Instructions with a nod to Leonard Cohen) Fold inward along line A and line B so that your wayward edges meet at [...]

The Read Write Poem prompt for today was to “listen to all the noise and let it inspire your poetry!” Here is what came up. It doesn’t feel finished, but this is all I can do with it today. Middle Ear Small bones never rest, busy as they are with the buzz of my life. [...]

The Read Write Poem prompt was to “pick a new career or lifestyle, assume the identity and start writing.” Both hooded crows and parrots live on the Robert College campus, and I am watching both of them today. A Hooded Crow A hooded crow dropped parrot feathers on this ode to quills and color. NaPoWriMo [...]

Today’s Read Write Poem prompt was to select words, phrases, lines from five pieces and work them into a poem. I used these six. Wendell Berry, How to Be a Poet: there are no unsaved spaces ee cummings, 87: what a wonderful thing/is the end of a string George Bilgere, Crusoe: the faintest signal, a [...]

I suppose learning something new can be a rite of passage (Read Write Poem), but the main inspiration came from this TED Talk by Margaret Wertheim. Old Dog Today I learned that frilly things, coral reefs, sea slugs, lettuce leaves, display a geometry more complex than a mere line or a sphere, and that this [...]