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  • A Bad Day in Three Concrete Sonnets

    A Bad Day in Three Concrete Sonnets

    Bad Day (Plain Text Version, scroll down for concrete version) I. Cars stopping. Cars honking. Cars whose drivers are texting. Drivers yakking on cellphones. Drivers rubbernecking. Damn those drivers creeping past police cars. Police by cones waiting, why aren’t they nabbing those drivers? Read more

  • Who Will Narrate: Listen and Cast Your Vote

    Who Will Narrate: Listen and Cast Your Vote

    Okay, we’ve talked these last two days about audio books both the professionally produced variety and the self-narrated too. If you need a refresher, pop by this post here for a discussion of professional voice acted audio books and here for the DIY option. You are armed with knowledge and ready to cast your vote… Read more

  • Elegy for Lactose, God how I miss you!

    Elegy for Lactose, God how I miss you!

    Elegy for Lactose Lost Cheesecake topped with whipped cream, sweet, velvety fudge, smooth ice cream topped with nuts, buttercream frosting heaped onto crumbly cake, I love you and I loathe that you don’t love me. Not a sip, not a crumb, can cross my lips or pay the price I must. Dear lactose it’s over.… Read more

  • Audio Book Meets DIY

    Audio Book Meets DIY

    Yesterday we talked about audio books, specifically about the money side.  You can refresh your memory here about that. I also referred you to a great post that Cecilia Lewis wrote up detailing how you pick a narrator for your book. Read her article here. Yesterday’s discussion centered around the cost to produce audio books and… Read more

  • A Silly Ballad about Buttercream

    A Silly Ballad about Buttercream

    You’ve been warned. I can’t get this damned thing out of mind so I can write a serious ballad for today’s assignment. So here is the ballad making the rounds in my skull. I hope you get a chuckle. Maybe by the time you read this I will have stopped laughing. Buttercream Day The bakery… Read more

  • Is There a Narrator in the House?

    Is There a Narrator in the House?

    I love audio books. So do my coworkers. We have our own little audio book club where we advocate and cajole each other to listen to the audio books we have loved. Right now two-thirds of the audio book club is pushing me to read Robert Galbraith’s novels. They are also lobbying me to put… Read more

  • My Happy Place

    My Happy Place

    My happy place is anywhere I can find beauty, even a crack in the asphalt will do: I’m just simple like that. Read more

  • Found Poem and Chiasmus

    Found Poem and Chiasmus

    What the heck is this? Jump down to find out.  Today’s Poetic Mission: Read more

  • Lambency: A Sonnet for Your Sunday

    Lambency: A Sonnet for Your Sunday

    Lambency A ray of light falling down on the shore reflects like obsidian in the sand. The shaft of light plays with the eyes to lure them deeper into its luminous hands. White fire that pierces the clouds, falling bright through azure-blue skies lighting its descent, spiraling slowly around, weaving tight bent circles both black… Read more

  • Winter: A Sonnet for your Saturday

    Winter: A Sonnet for your Saturday

    Winter advances and claims my warm heart. Blood freezes the veins of my chilly limbs. Dead leaves pour into my bowl and their tart taste slips past my frozen lips, deftly skims over my rebelling stomach to fill The snowy void left by fall’s bitter end. Naked branches bend in the shrill wind’s chill Torpor… Read more