The bridge of your nose is exquisite it’s place on your face deliberate to make us all envious of the sculptural shadows cast on your cheek as the sun falls then rises by your guide eager to please Working through ideas Since my last post I’d been going back and forth on what to write…… Continue reading The Bridge
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The Elements as Prompts Part IV
(Clockwise from top left) Harvesting garlic chive seeds, Burning Bush leaves in fall, a large Oak leaf up close. Fall is not a quiet season. It’s loud. Loud in its appearance, loud in its voice, loud in every way. Twice golden and glowing, the leaves glisten in the rise and fall of the sun. A…… Continue reading The Elements as Prompts Part IV
The Elements as Prompts Part III
I wrote with winter elements as a prompt and then spring. I don’t get why people wait all year for summer, a season that’s inevitably too hot to do anything. Every movement is an effort under the harsh sun, in the hot air. Some weeks back, a heat wave came as it usually does at…… Continue reading The Elements as Prompts Part III
The Elements as Prompts Part II
This piece is part of a series I’m doing on using the elements as writing prompts. I started with snow in winter. Technically, spring is here. Things have started to bloom but it still feels like everything is taking an eternity. I keep checking on the peas, lettuce and radish. They’re definitely taking their own…… Continue reading The Elements as Prompts Part II
The Elements as Prompts Part I
I sat down to do some writing practice. It was the first snow of the season. Paldi walked deliberately in the preformed footsteps in the snow. Whoever had walked here before him was two sizes bigger, making ample room in those hollows. When the clouds parted, the bright sun off the snow made it nearly…… Continue reading The Elements as Prompts Part I
Writing Prompts
Writing prompts are a great way to skip past that blank page hurdle. They give me an immediate direction in structure, tone or plot. They get me writing instead of overthinking how I should start. They get me to write in a way or about a thing I may not have considered before. And I…… Continue reading Writing Prompts
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