Clair de Lune

Clair de Lune Even moonlight should be as simple as possible and no simpler. The prompt for Day 4 blew Continue reading →

Guest Post: A Slander of Slugs

 Here is a wonderful and timely poem by Northwest poet Victoria Doerper! Thanks, Victoria! A Slander of Slugs A slander Continue reading →

How to Enthuse a Muse

To Charm Erato Directions: For best results sing while strumming a lyre, Scatter petals of roses hither and thither to Continue reading →

La Llorona

La Llorona  Under full moonlight I wander the riverbank wailing for you, mis hijos, weeping like raging water, like your Continue reading →

Wild Night! Wild Night!

Regrets, Aunt Ann 5 a.m. on the Ponte Vecchio, the three of us taking turns perching on Benuto Cellini’s shoulders Continue reading →

If Only Eyebrows Were Wings!

There they stand, two towers of the Mexican art world in black and white, different as night and day, dark Continue reading →

In the Name of the Pantoum, and of the Ode, and of the Holy Sonnet. Amen.

(Wikimedia Commons) “Cold doth not sting, the pretty birds do sing…” Thomas Nashe From “Spring, the Sweet Spring”     Continue reading →

Totem for a Snowy Day

I love snow! It brightens up a dreary winter and makes me feel happy. Normally. But wouldn’t you know it, Continue reading →