Category: poetry

  • 2019-12-10 Miss GingerSnap Speaks Her Mind

    2019-12-10 Miss GingerSnap Speaks Her Mind

    This might end up making me sound like a person with a multiple personality disorder but I was inspired to “try on” some different cookies by my friend Michelle. So from now until Christmas (or the end of the year), I’m going to be a different cookie every day. Yay!!! 😃 *** Yesterday I had…

  • 2019-11-25 Writers Workshop Whammy

    Where are we at today? Ah yes, in writers workshop where my poetry is being critiqued by an eclectic group of undergrad students. Most of whom, might I add, have had more exposure and experience than I in studies about literature, poetry, and writing in general. I got my undergrad in computer science, so what…

  • 2019-11-22 A Love Letter for Today

    2019-11-22 A Love Letter for Today

    A Love Letter for Today   My words are a love letter. To love is a verb which doesn’t always mean the same thing as it did the day before. The bible says that it is patient and kind but i find more often than not, it can also be lonely and wanting and hopeful…

  • 2019-09-26 The In-Between Place 🌍 ☀️ 💚

    It’s no secret I don’t care for air travel, but something about a solitary journey through the sky changes my mind. Not about the flying, but a shift of thought, deeper, more clear. Brighter perhaps. Lifting off the ground I’m physically detached from the me that exists on the ground. The mother, daughter, lover, friend,…

  • 2019-09-23 Skiddle-de-Do

    2019-09-23 Skiddle-de-Do

    The assignment due today? Pour the worst time in your life into a poem and make it linguistically beautiful and tragic and don’t forget to turn all the abstraction to concrete image. It’s the toughest assignment I’ve ever had. How do you turn all that black out drunk grief wailing near the top of the…

  • 2019-09-18 Words.. The Lost and Found Edition

    2019-09-18 Words.. The Lost and Found Edition

    When I was at residency I had a flood of words to work with. It’s always an interesting experiment in immersion and the impulse of spontaneous thought lingers for a while after I return home. This time around I was given an extra push and had some strong emotion to propel me forward and keep…

  • 2019-09-14 Leaps and Bounds of Faith

    2019-09-14 Leaps and Bounds of Faith

    I don’t have a religion. You might say I’m areligious the way an asexual has no need for sex or an aromantic has no need for romance. All three of those things are real words with definitions attached, I just checked. But, just as an aromantic can still have and want and need love, I…

  • 2019-09-13 Making Sense of Nonsense

    2019-09-13 Making Sense of Nonsense

    This week has been a mess of nonsense. One minute things are fine, the next there’s an urgent letter that arrives and I spent time trying to decipher it, then I realize what day it is and go spinning back in time to try and make some words for that. I have assignments that are…