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the menu for this year


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the goal

five poems completed to my own satisfaction. or maybe just completed. like, a draft exists.

the list

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prompts from the poetry journal


actually got to delete a few of these because I used some lines that were in here for one of last year's poems and then others for an additional poem in october.

kinda cool to see myself s l o w l y working my way through my poetry journal, ngl

not in my poetry journal, but @alliyah suggested writing some poems from the perspective of the groundskeeper from groundskeeperwip when I said he likes poetry. or poems about trees. or poems about graves. or poems about gravy, which are less relevant to groundskeeperwip but came up because she said "spooky gravey poems."

wait wait idea idea

a poem about a haunted gravy boat

potential titles
Spoiler! :
Calamity Jane
my life in cars
my grandfather was a magician
the second theatre I fell in love with
Fake Queerâ„¢
Little Blessings
Ode to a Small Town
Why I Go On Long Drives
wildflowers grow in ditches
To Love Recklessly [although I do have a poem about children loving this way so idk]
to be human is to be beautiful in contradiction
missingness ("hiraeth," Welsh/"saudaude," Portugese)
How Can I Love When I'm Worn Out in the World
Evangelicals
It always feel so good to deglaze the pan
we are loud and joyful people
just family things


potential lines
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Come away with me into the desert and

The wind in the trees sounds like the seas,
an ocean overhead,
solid sky beneath my feet

a forest so green
it's like I'd never seen a summer day

our way to dispel evil is through love,
but sometimes
you just have to fashion a whip
and drive the moneychangers out of the Temple


quotes
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"We are hollow bones" (Black Elk)
"he's naked, which is what he's always doing" (my sister)
"Dianne Kay Drennan, 1958-2009: a pioneer for women in the airforce - 'love one another'" (a tombstone)
"when you're curling your toes,
clenching your feet, damaging yourself
to fit into shoes two sizes too small" (a tumblr post)
"mushily called 'real life'" (Leo Rosten)
"mazes we cannot unriddle" (Leo Rosten)
"inner, furious grace" (Leo Rosten)
"God, with whom he had very little in common" (Leo Rosten)
"may you look out the window when the light is just how you like it" (a tumblr post)
"if anyone is a curmudgeon please have a couple of drinks and yell THERE IS STILL BEAUTY IN THIS WORLD, KAREN" (@ erinscafe on Twitter)
"he died, he got up, so you need to get up - come on" (Pastor Mike from class)


ideas
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beautiful people are happy
we built sandcastles that washed away
rocks, trees, graffiti on a freeway overpass, the way we need to leave our mark on everything, the final mark carved into a headstone
planes
the time Nadia bought my lunch for me
810 and 586 area codes; transcripts from SC4
looking into other cars when we see license plates from home when we're out of state
human connection: names carved into tree trunks, rocks, graffiti on the sides of freeway overpasses, handprints in concrete, we like to make our mark
bird list poem
smells I like list poem
marriage/funeral juxtaposition
list poem about Marine City with numbers of different businesses and ending perhaps with numbers about the immediate family
fireflies and first loves
a snow poem
dog-eared pages: the sign of a book well-loved
midwinter and the way the Christmas lights still up give me hope
determined but not dedicated
a recipe poem
making yourself fit into the relationship, closing in on yourself, tamping yourself down
something akin to I miss the birds in winter but more hopeful/cheerful [although idk reading back over I miss the birds in winter that's pretty hopeful already]


potential revisions
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How I Learned to Love Toledo (2014)
laws of physics
synthesis
Girt in Nonsense
Impostor Syndrome
The Fruit You Gave Me
I want to fix up old houses
the in-between ages
SAH 289 [*sighs loudly*]
actually all the grandparent poems from two Aprils ago that I hardcore angsted over
  





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Tue Apr 06, 2021 7:38 pm
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I am super excited to see what some of your creations will turn out to be c:
name: key/string/perks
pronouns: she/her/hers and they/them/theirs


novel: the clocktower (camp nano apr 24)
poetry: the beauty of the untold (napo 2024)
  





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@EditorAndPerks you mean some of my creations that I have not even started on bc I've been obsessively drafting my novel?
  





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@BluesClues psssh like i'd be disappointed reading about you obsessing over novels and yes of course. aha :p
name: key/string/perks
pronouns: she/her/hers and they/them/theirs


novel: the clocktower (camp nano apr 24)
poetry: the beauty of the untold (napo 2024)
  





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@EditorAndPerks maybe all my poems will just be me obsessing and/or angsting over my novels and querying them and that's it
  





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update:



there is no update I still haven't written a single line of poetry or worked even a little on the poetry publication workshop
  





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Guess who did exactly zero (0) poems this NaPo AND did exactly zero (0) work on the poetry publication workshop I've been meaning to plan for months

this is what I get for trying to do NaPo AND Camp NaNo
  








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