Under the Hood
Day 142 prompt: Childhood In all likelihood Her childhood Of orphanhood Knit her selfhood Into an adulthood Of servanthood Rooting out falsehoods In the neighborhood Of the priesthood
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Critter Jitters
Day 141 prompt: Critters All our babysitters Seem to get the jitters When a creature starts to skitter One wimpy sitter Complained on Twitter That my gecko was a spitter Another […]
What to Wear
Day 140 prompt: Casual Casual sex Happens outside The bounds of love In the marital Or emotional sense Unattached Uncommitted Unencumbered The opposite, then, Must be formal sex, Which would happen […]
Symbols of Trust
Day 139 prompt: Symbols If the person On the door Wears a skirt I go in If the tub Of rippled water Bears an X I don’t wash it If the […]
Fishy Decishy
Day 138 prompt: fish Flipping and flopping … Insecure menu hopping … Stuffed quarter pounder? (sigh) Healthy baked flounder
Celebration Articulation
Day 137 prompt: Celebration We say bravo Or way to go Hot damn It’s a grand slam Hip hip hooray You made my day All right That’s out of sight Ya-f***in’-hoo […]
Avocado Shame
Day 136 prompt: Retro my mom chose an Avocado stove not to go with her stoneware or to accentuate a stripe in the café curtain above the sink but because it […]
House Stories
Day 135 prompt: Letters in Architecture If the house where you grew up wrote a memoir, would its recollection of your childhood match your own?
Weathered
Day 134 prompt: Weathered (a haiku) Weathered woman twists stop sign to slow. We swap waves. Is she a mom, too?
Best Friend
Day 133 prompt: Best Friend in grade school a best friend was the one who shared the most time and secrets a simple calculation the title passed occasionally but not often […]
Family
Day 132 prompt: Family Once nuclear Then fractured Now blended Always family
Small Fast Art
Day 131 Prompt: Art as much as I am moved by art in slow, long forms sinking deep into an hour of Mozart’s Requiem or losing track of time gazing long […]
Formula
Day 130 prompt: Five (a haiku) Start with five Then add seven syllables Then five again That’s haiku
Pairings
Day 129 prompt: Wine a juicy petite fillet after work or ramen noodles and string cheese after school happy hour hors d’oeuvres with a girlfriend or witching hour colic with an […]
Life Swap
Day 128 prompt: Team (a limerick) A guy quit his wiffle ball team To follow his childhood dream. Bye-bye balls with holes. Hail, remote controls! His new name is Screen Man […]
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