Category: Novel X

DAY 8 (June 19th, 2018) Where goes this road? Writhing like a wounded serpent To hell with the odyssey I fall to my knees and from my eyes fly iron-tipped spear...

DAY 7 (June 18th, 2018) How I wish you were here, the way you once were before we planted our wounded bodies like flags on some war-torn hill in the middle of n...

DAY 6 (June 17th, 2018) the time is short shorter than you think blink and it’s gone and so are possibilities Daily Word Count: 101 EXCERPT At any rate, I...

DAY 5 (June 16th, 2018) OLD PATTERNS Old patterns deaden the pain. The pain is gone. A scar remains. And I am lifted out of it. Daily Word Count: 120 EXCERPT “W...

DAY 4 (June 15th, 2018) MY EYES My eyes are old and I cannot see. Yet still your soul reveals itself to me. Daily Word Count: 115 EXCERPT “Lalooch, if you pleas...

DAY 3 (June 14th, 2018) WAITING IN VAIN I waited in vain for a warm word— too much a burden, I suppose for you to bear. Daily Word Count: 124 EXCERPT “Wel...

DAY 2 (June 13th, 2018) IF I COULD REACH If I could reach into the past and pluck a petal from that ghostly flower I’d pull you back and tell you that I l...

DAY 1 (June 12th, 2018) ON WRITING POETRY The first verse is easy. The second one strained. The third one is broken. The fourth one maimed. Daily Word Count: 12...