Breaking the Line [Exercise #3]

Due Wed. March 1

Haibun [Exercise #2]

Due Wednesday Feb. 15

Hello Darlings! In case you missed it, we had a fantastic first prompt. 14 poets participated, and Fresh Darlings gained 52 followers in less than two weeks! I’m thrilled by the wonderful writing and constructive feedback that is…

From (Revised)

I am from the skeleton of coal mines
Soot and tobacco
And men who don’t say much
I am from venison stew
Knife handles carved from…

From

I am from the skeleton of coal mines
Soot and tobacco
And men who don’t say much
I am from venison stew
Knife handles carved from antlers
Hours spent…

Œnone Retold

...a parsed rhapsody.

Where Did They Go?

Where did they go?

Where did they go? Tiny creases white on chubby tanned skin, waving hands…

Composite

I am from drought
when the lake sinks low enough
to purloin green gloaming views
of steeple and market remaining
where the dam had submerged…

Flipbook trees

The grass tree came into the frame, neither a grass nor a tree. Yet. As quick as the wheels turn on the rails, it grew: now a…