Poems, Songs, Stories, Thoughts

PoPo Fest 2021

Poetry Postcard Fest is an annual event facilitated by what is now known as Cascadia Poetics Lab, which I learned about from founder Paul E. Nelson. Basically, you pay $15 to be put into a group of 30 other people around the world who have agreed to write a poem a day for a month and mail each one on a postcard. Sounds like fun, right? Well, it was, but once again, it seems my expectations exceeded reality.

Poems, Songs, Stories

Fiction Friday: “Translation” (a collaboration)

It’s not like I remember it, this planet. The blues and greens that painted me as a child have been replaced with browns and grays, the color of dry bones. Crouched here among these windowed walls, roofless with decay, I long for my youth. What winter could devastate me then, having known only a few silent snows, spectral with belonging?

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Poems, Songs, Stories, Thoughts

“Why, Corona?” A parody

In light of the recent pandemic, I think it would be remiss of me to not write a poem about the coronavirus. Or in this case, a parody of the Kinks', "My Sharona" (which, apparently, "was going too  far" for Weird Al, according to the New York Post. However, many others have taken up the… Continue reading “Why, Corona?” A parody