Category Archives: Inspiration



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The starling’s song
The rising sun
The flashed green of twilight
Peonies Continue reading →

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My Wife

My wife’s a cornucopia—
Spilling science, squash, ceramics—
My home’s a near utopia,
Fashioned by her daemon: manic.
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Posted in Inspiration, Joan

Tenth Edition

One might compare you to a Summer’s day;
But you’ve aged now, become less temperate—
Rough, being thirty-six, to make your way
Through vicious seasons, threatening brittle fate! Continue reading →

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Plots

Where do writers get their plots?

Today, at Ralph’s supermarket,
Standing at the cashier’s
Queue, Continue reading →

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Rain

Sometimes the words won’t come,
Distraction wiles all time.
But rain—artful pander—
Intrudes to nourish rhyme. Continue reading →

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Resolution

January first, two thousand seven,
Hard to face that New Year with not a thing
To do. So I yeasted Time with leaven—
Resolved to write one poem a week—to ring Continue reading →

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