Okay, it only took like forever, but I think I’ve hit my stride! How great is that? Alrighty, so hour 7 “my foolproof recipe for mending a broken heart” From the teal blue Burn after Reading prompt journal. Which is great because I was super…
Category: Marathon Poem
Hour 7: Primus
I went to see a bizarre, fierce thunder framed by cinematic flashes of monkeypeople on bikes and strobing mushrooms followed by thumping chuck chucks and the squelching growls of tightly coiled wires bleating out the rawness just beneath my skin wriggling uncomfortably at my own…
Hour 7- When Psych said Sike!
If I’d known what I was saying yes to, On the day I chose this fork of the road. I would have said yes as soon as I could. Yes now and a million more times. I found in all six of you not just…
Letter from Parker – Hour 6 Prompt
HEY GOAT ROPER When are you going to get your ass up here and go camping??? Mr. Bigtime Hollywood is too fancy to get drunk with rednecks? I found a spot further up that logging road where we tore the bumper off, lets get Jason…
The Sneaky Librarian
There is a librarian down in 7th street in a tiny town library with gigantic feet. I’ve seen them you know those gigantic feet in the tiny town library down on 7th street. I peeked through the window in the library door She…
Harvest Time, Hour Seven
Six years in the desert of southwest Texas gave me a new appreciation for seasonal change, anchoring my soul and body to time and place in a manner missing for those half dozen years. Three years since my return, and my gardens and knowledge are…
Stuck
She’s so hungry for his last supper with shame to even speak out Why now, and what shall you do? You must feel oppressed now Does your heart feels awe or not Tell us all about it or more to see you wish for hope…
Prompt 7, Mid-Morning
Birds practice their plaintive twitching for crumbs and scatter like dive bombers as I toss pinhead size morsels of my breakfast burrito shell just beyond the perimeter. More and more, the city market morning feels like the calm before an indefinite storm. My day…
Prompt Seven: Sorrows
Sorrows The leaves come tumbling down. Leaves come tumbling down. Come tumbling down. Tumbling down. Like my tears down my face. My tears down my face. Tears down my face. Down my face. My face. There are sorrows unknown. Are sorrows unknown….
Nacre
I found a world inside a shell, I peeked in for a fleeting spell; A tiny church for plankton bones And grains of sand for standing stones, Hairline hedges tufted round Algae lush upon a mound Where, almost too small to be seen, Cattle grazed…