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    • Thomas Gorn
      Thomas Gorn published a blog post NaPoWriMo 2021, Day 25: Putting on Cyrano in the group Slant of Light
      Putting on Cyrano For D.K. Putting on Cyrano de Bergerac makes everbody adolescent horny. For a few weeks we all moon, romantic and doomed. You had a bit part and I was in wardrobe, but we were the stars in our own star-crossed...
      • Roynald O'MacRossinski
        Social Drinking I never drink alone. Summer afternoon: As I sit on my porch, My fingers curled around A sweating glass of scotch, Chickadees sing to me And cicadas gossip. A shy breeze flirts, kissing My cheek with her cool lips Before...
        • Ian Erinson
          Ian Erinson published a blog post NaPoWriMo 2021, Day 23 in the group Slant of Light
          Predation Proud The eagle is old. His feathers are greasy, ragged, lousy. Half-blind, he blinks against the sun he once looked in the face, equal to equal. Hungry. He’s always hungry. He spies a wake of vultures tearing at a rotting...
          • Ian Erinson
            Ian Erinson published a blog post NaPoWriMo 2021, Day 22 in the group Slant of Light
            Agkistrodon contortrix This city's asquirm with vipers. You risk meeting one when you step off the curb or turn back your sheets. A civic group beheaded the snake that bit poor Mr. Farmer, and the air grew thick with confetti and heavy...
            • Basil Cartryte
              Basil Cartryte published a blog post NaPoWriMo 2021 Day 21: redacted in the group Slant of Light
              Poem redacted because it's been accepted for a litzine. Have a digital doodle thing instead!
              • sylvester hobson
                sylvester hobson published a blog post napowrimo 2021 day 19 - a haiku in the group Slant of Light
                late april snow not yet here is here -- sylvester hobson ”late april snow” by sylvester hobson is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Based on a work at...
                • Basil Cartryte
                  Basil Cartryte published a blog post NaPoWriMo 2021 Day 18: An AI Imagst Poem in the group Slant of Light
                  An AI Attempts an Imagist Poem NEARBY I SUMMARIZE HISTORY WHILE STANDING BEHIND A CAT. A man in a porkpie hat is holding a piece of pizza and a bouquet of black and white flowers with a pair of scissors he waves at a red banana...
                  • Carl Bettis
                    Carl Bettis published a blog post NaPoWriMo 2021, day 17 in the group Slant of Light
                    No sound from the rain. Footsteps echo in the hotel hall. -- Carl Bettis ”No sound from the rain” by Carl Bettis is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Based on a work at...
                    • Carl Bettis
                      Carl Bettis published a blog post NaPoWriMo 2021 Day 16 in the group Slant of Light
                      Taken for Granted I'll tell you what freedom is to me: no fear. I mean, really, no fear!" -- Nina Simone Freedom to put off fixing that taillight on a car that still flaunts an Obama bumper sticker. Freedom to buy one item and...
                      • Sturgis Giteau
                        Sturgis Giteau published a blog post NaPoWriMo 2021 Day 15 in the group Slant of Light
                        A Disquisition Upon Pyramids I don't believe, just to make it clear, that space aliens built the pyramids in Egypt or that Egyptians built the pyramids in Mexico or that wizards built Stonehenge. But I know space aliens exist. Back when...
                        • sylvester hobson
                          sylvester hobson published a blog post napowrimo 2021 day 14: i have a question in the group Slant of Light
                          i have a question i have a question or two for grass blades growing lushly green who in four months time will break brittle underfoot and for the mockingbird now loud who will be then silent and for the changeable moon who never...
                          • Bryant Jacobi
                            Click on the small, cropped image for the complete image. The poem is more than the text alone, but the text is below. The Rose Tree's Complaint The soul is the missing body that would prove the crime. The corpse sings & everyone hears...
                            • Ian Erinson
                              Ian Erinson bookmarked Riseup Pad
                              Riseup Pad is "a software libre web application that allows for real-time group collaboration of text documents. Riseup does not store IP addresses, we require https, and pads are automatically destroyed after 60 days of inactivity."
                              • Thomas Gorn
                                Thomas Gorn published a blog post NaPoWriMo 2021, Day 12 in the group Slant of Light
                                History of You and Me for R.A. When we met: Weary, both, from recent battles and battering storms, we hoped only in one another to find fleeting respite. We were too worldly to hunt that mythical creature, peace. When we...
                                • Carl Bettis
                                  Carl Bettis bookmarked The Public Domain Review
                                  The Public Domain Review is dedicated to the exploration of curious and compelling works from the history of art, literature, and ideas – focusing on works now fallen into the public domain, the vast commons of out-of-copyright material that...
                                  • Carl Bettis
                                    Carl Bettis published a blog post NaPoWriMo 2021 Day 11: At Least I Take Notes in the group Slant of Light
                                    At Least I Take Notes I tell myself, Wake up, you moron, your house is burning! Put it out or call for help or run away! I holler, I cajole, I plead, I scold. Helplessly I watch myself toss spices, powders, salts into the flames,...
                                    • Basil Cartryte
                                      Basil Cartryte published a blog post NaPoWriMo 2021 Day 10: a pataphysical love song in the group Slant of Light
                                      Caraway Seeds in Crystallized Honey A pataphysical love song How beautiful is thy dwelling, my beloved! As you delicately place mousetraps in the pantry, how stately thy pulse! How amiable thy armpits, their abundant hair a fragrant bower...
                                      • Carl Bettis
                                        "A comprehensive anthology and guide to English literature of the Middle Ages, Renaissance, Seventeenth Century, Restoration and Eighteenth Century" The focus here is medieval to 18th-century literature, but some more modern literature...
                                        • Ian Erinson
                                          Ian Erinson bookmarked Collective Unrest
                                          “Collective Unrest is a leftist political journal. The poetry, fiction, essays, photography, visual art, music, and otherwise contained herein are meant to produce a feeling of humanity, unrest, social justice, and urgency.”
                                          • Ian Erinson
                                            Ian Erinson published a blog post NaPoWriMo 2021 Day 8: Invisible Handwriting in the group Slant of Light
                                            Invisible Handwriting Scribbled across clouds that drizzle annoyance on suburban men walking dogs ordinance passed by forces that spin galaxies and silkworm cocoons henceforth apocalypse be ordinary (special status revoked and privileges...

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