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#PINP17 Day 8
Order the Cosmos It will go the way it goes; I have no control Anymore than I can order the cosmos.
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#PINP17 Day 7
Back Table I want to throw things at you Dear Back Table Pens, wadded paper, markers, erasers, books I want to bean the smirks off your faces I want serenity and calm in my classroom Not your raucous laughter.
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#PINP17 Days 5 and 6
In the Night (Day 5) And in the night there you come hands like brands and lips like embers. The Baby (Day 6) Little toes like pink snails. Little eyes onyx-dark. Little tummy soft as a sack of grain. Little tuft of hair a brown coil like darkened bronze. Little freckles skin like toasted […]
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Post-It Note Poetry Day 4
Waterproof (Day 4) “We are not waterproof,” You declared Laughing On the beach Where the sea inhaled and exhaled The same sea that garlanded Your head in silver and foam Before you dipped beneath the waves and drowned.
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Post-It Note Poetry, Days 1 – 3
This year I am participating in Post-It Note Poetry. The basic idea is to write a poem a day for the month of February. The poem must fit on a single post-it note — hence “post-it note poetry”, or #pinp. At risk of being redundant, I’m going to be posting my poems here so I […]
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Goals
Yuzuru Hanyu is considered, by some, one of the greatest figure skaters to have ever lived. If you watch his exhibition skate at this year’s Grand Prix Final, you might begin to understand why. This is not even close to his best performance! But he consistently goes about smashing records, and, has gone on to […]
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In Honor of Hidden Work
Earlier this week I reached my year goal to write 240,000 words. That is no mean feat; it’s the equivalent of four, 60,000 word novels. But where had all my words gone? I certainly didn’t write four novels. I did write short stories, and the first draft and half of a second draft of a novella. […]
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Because of What We Know
The most recent TV show I’ve gotten into is called The Librarians. It’s a fantasy show, about a team of rag-tag folk who find themselves thrust into the position of “librarian”, which means defending the world from magic gone awry and going on adventures all over the world (and basically having the best job ever). Librarians are not […]
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where I could not go wrong
I’m in love with Bob Dylan. Or, more precisely, his work. A week and a half ago I learned about Dylan winning the Nobel Prize in literature. I thought that was a fascinating choice, all things considered. I was not, by any stretch, a Bob Dylan fan. I asked my Introduction to Literature students what […]
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J. S. Kuiken 