Notes In The Margin » poetry

Home Again 2024/04/09, Hanoi, remembering Beaver Place Road “If you lived here you’d be home now”, the sign read. But I did, and I wasn’t, for all those years. Temporary storage for my th...

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Ploughed Fields by Van Gogh I stopped in Amsterdam on the way to Edinburgh expressly to see you. Took the flight with the absurdly long layover so I could take the train to Centraal and walk the ...

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Flow or … Contemplation on the difficulty of writing poetry on demand   Words flow like … What doesn’t flow? Cliche: Molasses More imaginative … Traffic on circle 4 at about 5:38 on a Th...

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Stream of Conscious July 4 S-Tree Campground Sand Gap, Kentucky Under the emerald canopy time stretches like salt water taffy Attenuates Funny word, that, attenuate At Ten You Ate Seems longer ag...

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Local Prompt from @WkendWordsmith delicious, menus, employee You order the clams because they are local. Also because they are delicious, you say. She and I enjoy the crab, from far, far away, al...

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Working from http://www.agodon.com/uploads/2/9/4/3/2943768/writing_prompts_by_kelli_russell_agodon.pdf  for daily writing prompts, here’s day 1. The prompt: 1. Grab the closest book. Go to p...

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For St. Patrick’s Day, and for Poetry Friday, here’s Green, perhaps the best poem I ever wrote: Oh, and here’s me reading it, too, over here: https://drbacchus.com/green/ Green Dec 5, 2007...

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Macavity: The Mystery Cat, by T S Eliot

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You taunt me, box 1 of 2. What, and where is box 2? Is there even a box 2? Is there any relation between the utterly random assortment of junk in you to the cornucopia which is box 2? Ah, box 1 h...

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Endnotes She didn’t want to send invitations. Why invite people you know aren’t going to come. Seems a waste. So her Daddy’s daughter. It’s traditional, says Mere, People like to know. Sh...

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