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Through the air, a CadiDragon, suddenly.

  • NaPoWriMo Archives Re: A Dragon of Carefully-Chosen Words

    #18 Clothes: packed; Plants: watered; Travellers: tucked up in bed.

    Apr 18, 2019
  • NaPoWriMo Archives Re: A Dragon of Carefully-Chosen Words

    #17 It's picking up a bar of soap, and remembering that there's something to be guilty about (but the knowledge of what eludes your grasp, leaping from your lathered fingers ...

    Apr 17, 2019
  • NaPoWriMo Archives Re: A Dragon of Carefully-Chosen Words

    #16 There's a place behind my ribs that's twisted in a knot of dizzying vertigo from teetering on the cliff-edge of the gulf between reality and that moment in my ...

    Apr 16, 2019
  • NaPoWriMo Archives Re: A Dragon of Carefully-Chosen Words

    #15 It's a recipe for disappointment, but I confess I've started anticipating your visits again

    Apr 15, 2019
  • NaPoWriMo Archives Re: A Dragon of Carefully-Chosen Words

    #14 What can you grow on twelve square feet of decking, two storeys up with nothing to shield against wind or sun? Rosemary, certainly; lavender, maybe; a little bit of ...

    Apr 14, 2019
  • NaPoWriMo Archives Re: A Dragon of Carefully-Chosen Words

    #13 The day the boiler broke, it was raining outside, gauzy drizzle hissing from a pallid sky, thinner than the downpour in my dining room, the roaring mass of water ...

    Apr 13, 2019
  • NaPoWriMo Archives Re: A Dragon of Carefully-Chosen Words

    #12 Sink into the soft embrace of yielding foam and light, puffy feathers; cocoon yourself in warmth and drift away to dreamland. Alternative title: "what I'm about to do RIGHT ...

    Apr 12, 2019
  • NaPoWriMo Archives Re: saturn is home, and all is well

    Wow, that list of prompts for the Zyzzyx Road poem is intense! Good work for getting all that into one poem! I like the bit about the goose stealing chips ...

    Apr 12, 2019
  • NaPoWriMo Archives Re: these benedight flowers

    Ooh, I really like grace your lips like it's a tangerine flavor, that you lick off with your tongue because you can't get enough

    Apr 12, 2019
  • NaPoWriMo Archives Re: tatterdemalion dreamcoats

    Oh, you've got some good imagery going here, paperforest! I love the "thunderstorm tree" in #1, and the streetlights "like washed-out eyes" in #4. Also, I agree with alliyah - ...

    Apr 12, 2019
  • NaPoWriMo Archives Re: If it comes to me, I'll make it sound profound.

    Yay Jabberrr! I like all of these - like Ten said, you've got excellently vivid imagery. I think the metaphor in Exit 62 to My Lover's Heart is particularly creative ...

    Apr 12, 2019
  • NaPoWriMo Archives Re: a planet rising darkly is a mirror in reverse

    Hey if I have to do shots of water every time you use religious imagery, at least I'll be nicely hydrated by the end of the month :D Seriously, though, ...

    Apr 12, 2019
  • NaPoWriMo Archives Re: sometimes I hear the bell ringing

    I love your theme - this is like getting an incredibly personal campus tour. (It's really interesting thinking about how all the places we see every day relate to our ...

    Apr 12, 2019
  • NaPoWriMo Archives Re: I'll even kick my own butt

    I really like the thing you're doing where you write about different emotions every day - I tend to get stuck in topic-matter ruts, too, so this sounds like a ...

    Apr 12, 2019
  • NaPoWriMo Archives Re: alight for benediction

    I always look forward to your poems, Penguini, and I'm really enjoying reading these ones. It's a whole sensory experience - the cicadas and lemon in #8, the soft earth ...

    Apr 12, 2019


Everything has to be taken on trust; truth is only that which is taken to be true. It's the currency of living. There may be nothing behind it, but it doesn't make any difference so long as it is honoured. One acts on assumptions. What do you assume?
— Player (Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard)