DAY 20 (July 1st, 2018)

LETTING GO

there is something like death in it—
this letting go.

cup your clay hands
slake your tired thirst
twice born, thrice born
born-again born, from these
wine dregs drink deep.

Daily Word Count: 127

EXCERPT

She pounded back the last of her Molten Stinger and got up to leave in a huff.

The 100 Day Project

The 100 Day Project is a creativity excavation. It’s about unearthing dormant or unrealized creativity by committing to a daily practice everyday for 100 days.
Creativity is a skill. The more we practice, the more skilled we become. Practice takes time. Practice takes commitment. Practice is a radical act in this speeded up world. Through practice, we develop a creative habit. Through habit, we reconnect with and know ourselves again as a creative being.

I started this, my third, 100 Day Project on June 12th, 2018. My project is to write at least one first-draft stanza inspired by a poem, a quote, an idea, a painting—anything, really (or nothing at all) and to write at least one hundred shitty first-draft words of my novel. I’ll post the results here.

Enjoy!

DAY 19 (June 30th, 2018)

SPARROWS

a ubiquity—
a troupe of sparrows
dance a soot brown feather hop
and flit higgledy–piggledy between
bread crumbs tossed
like playground balls
from one squawking beak
to the next

Daily Word Count: 115

EXCERPT

“Wait just a minute … I didn’t agree to any mission. I just want to attend the communion.”

The 100 Day Project

The 100 Day Project is a creativity excavation. It’s about unearthing dormant or unrealized creativity by committing to a daily practice everyday for 100 days.
Creativity is a skill. The more we practice, the more skilled we become. Practice takes time. Practice takes commitment. Practice is a radical act in this speeded up world. Through practice, we develop a creative habit. Through habit, we reconnect with and know ourselves again as a creative being.

I started this, my third, 100 Day Project on June 12th, 2018. My project is to write at least one first-draft stanza inspired by a poem, a quote, an idea, a painting—anything, really (or nothing at all) and to write at least one hundred shitty first-draft words of my novel. I’ll post the results here.

Enjoy!

DAY 18 (June 29th, 2018)

TIME IS A CRUTCH

time is a crutch
for the dying.
hear yourself breathe.
sense yourself distinct.
a world presses in upon you like a mold–
the last dimension is pulled out
like a rug from under you.
what is life without it?

Daily Word Count: 111

EXCERPT

Quite smooth, he thought, as he shook it … somewhat too vigorously. He had thought to kiss it, but thought the better of it. He again smiled awkwardly instead.

The 100 Day Project

The 100 Day Project is a creativity excavation. It’s about unearthing dormant or unrealized creativity by committing to a daily practice everyday for 100 days.
Creativity is a skill. The more we practice, the more skilled we become. Practice takes time. Practice takes commitment. Practice is a radical act in this speeded up world. Through practice, we develop a creative habit. Through habit, we reconnect with and know ourselves again as a creative being.

I started this, my third, 100 Day Project on June 12th, 2018. My project is to write at least one first-draft stanza inspired by a poem, a quote, an idea, a painting—anything, really (or nothing at all) and to write at least one hundred shitty first-draft words of my novel. I’ll post the results here.

Enjoy!

DAY 17 (June 28th, 2018)

A CITY IS BURNING (UNFINISHED)

A city is burning on the riverfront,
waxen spirits dance upon the embers—
there are millions of them.
I stand, tarry, wait
to be yet another
among their countless number.

I taste copper in my mouth—
the crippled trees, raven sky
behind me. It is dark.
Too dark to see.
I stumble like a blind man
toward the ferry.

Daily Word Count: 171

EXCERPT

Charlot studied Burt for several moments. She searched his eyes. He smiled awkwardly.

The 100 Day Project

The 100 Day Project is a creativity excavation. It’s about unearthing dormant or unrealized creativity by committing to a daily practice everyday for 100 days.
Creativity is a skill. The more we practice, the more skilled we become. Practice takes time. Practice takes commitment. Practice is a radical act in this speeded up world. Through practice, we develop a creative habit. Through habit, we reconnect with and know ourselves again as a creative being.

I started this, my third, 100 Day Project on June 12th, 2018. My project is to write at least one first-draft stanza inspired by a poem, a quote, an idea, a painting—anything, really (or nothing at all) and to write at least one hundred shitty first-draft words of my novel. I’ll post the results here.

Enjoy!

DAY 16 (June 27th, 2018)

A MOMENT

A moment weightless in love
lingers in its own eternity
it swept through you—a furious, elemental wind
that felled you, root and branch—
an ancient cypress,
palpably impermanent despite
the countless centuries it had endured.

Daily Word Count: 172

EXCERPT

“I suppose that’s possible. I mean, I don’t have proof to the contrary. But it’s hard for me to believe. It goes against everything I believe about you, about the CIA, about our whole damned corrupted government.”

The 100 Day Project

The 100 Day Project is a creativity excavation. It’s about unearthing dormant or unrealized creativity by committing to a daily practice everyday for 100 days.
Creativity is a skill. The more we practice, the more skilled we become. Practice takes time. Practice takes commitment. Practice is a radical act in this speeded up world. Through practice, we develop a creative habit. Through habit, we reconnect with and know ourselves again as a creative being.

I started this, my third, 100 Day Project on June 12th, 2018. My project is to write at least one first-draft stanza inspired by a poem, a quote, an idea, a painting—anything, really (or nothing at all) and to write at least one hundred shitty first-draft words of my novel. I’ll post the results here.

Enjoy!

DAY 15 (June 26th, 2018)

SILHOUETTE (UNFINISHED)

An old woman knit a silhouette
from a patchwork of dreams and threadbare trances,
between wisps of moth-eaten memories on a park bench tottering
between clots of madness and enlightenment—
and walked into it.

Daily Word Count: 108

EXCERPT

“You shouldn’t always believe what you read or see in the news, Charlot. I’ll let you in on a secret. Sometimes we intentionally leak bad press just to keep our enemies on their toes.”

The 100 Day Project

The 100 Day Project is a creativity excavation. It’s about unearthing dormant or unrealized creativity by committing to a daily practice everyday for 100 days.
Creativity is a skill. The more we practice, the more skilled we become. Practice takes time. Practice takes commitment. Practice is a radical act in this speeded up world. Through practice, we develop a creative habit. Through habit, we reconnect with and know ourselves again as a creative being.

I started this, my third, 100 Day Project on June 12th, 2018. My project is to write at least one first-draft stanza inspired by a poem, a quote, an idea, a painting—anything, really (or nothing at all) and to write at least one hundred shitty first-draft words of my novel. I’ll post the results here.

Enjoy!

DAY 14 (June 25th, 2018)

THE FLUTE (UNFINISHED)

upon my deathbed I lie inert—
enfeebled heart,
mind aground,
command lost and naught to follow—
when I hear her play.

I wake and wash my face in the dun-colored dawn.

Daily Word Count: 105

EXCERPT

” … My mission … our mission, if it suits you, is to attend that hearing, gather intelligence, and get information concerning our lost agent, if at all possible.”

The 100 Day Project

The 100 Day Project is a creativity excavation. It’s about unearthing dormant or unrealized creativity by committing to a daily practice everyday for 100 days.
Creativity is a skill. The more we practice, the more skilled we become. Practice takes time. Practice takes commitment. Practice is a radical act in this speeded up world. Through practice, we develop a creative habit. Through habit, we reconnect with and know ourselves again as a creative being.

I started this, my third, 100 Day Project on June 12th, 2018. My project is to write at least one first-draft stanza inspired by a poem, a quote, an idea, a painting—anything, really (or nothing at all) and to write at least one hundred shitty first-draft words of my novel. I’ll post the results here.

Enjoy!

DAY 13 (June 24th, 2018)

DRAWING A CIRCLE

I drew a circle to find
that God dwells
in the beginning
and the end—
not in the fiery score
seething from the orchestral pit,
foretold in dreams,
to which my desperate soul
listened in vain for meaning.

The grotesque quality of everyday life conceals from you a real misery of the passions.
    —Barnave

Copied from the the book The Red and the Black, which you can buy here:

Daily Word Count: 108

EXCERPT

Burt considered that. She’s an expert with expert knowledge. That could, in fact, be useful.

The 100 Day Project

The 100 Day Project is a creativity excavation. It’s about unearthing dormant or unrealized creativity by committing to a daily practice everyday for 100 days.
Creativity is a skill. The more we practice, the more skilled we become. Practice takes time. Practice takes commitment. Practice is a radical act in this speeded up world. Through practice, we develop a creative habit. Through habit, we reconnect with and know ourselves again as a creative being.

I started this, my third, 100 Day Project on June 12th, 2018. My project is to write at least one first-draft stanza inspired by a poem, a quote, an idea, a painting—anything, really (or nothing at all) and to write at least one hundred shitty first-draft words of my novel. I’ll post the results here.

Enjoy!

DAY 12 (June 23rd, 2018)

ALL GONE

the withered arm
the withered leg
the sunken eye
the shriveled head
it’s all gone, my friend—
all gone

hold my hand
before you fall
off the cliff
and end it all
it’s all gone, my friend—
all gone

Daily Word Count: 103

EXCERPT

“I arrived some time after, since I saw your ship in the docking bay when we were debarking the taxi. The broken Flexipass was still attached to your ship. That was a dead giveaway. Which reminds me … you owe Starbots—”

The 100 Day Project

The 100 Day Project is a creativity excavation. It’s about unearthing dormant or unrealized creativity by committing to a daily practice everyday for 100 days.
Creativity is a skill. The more we practice, the more skilled we become. Practice takes time. Practice takes commitment. Practice is a radical act in this speeded up world. Through practice, we develop a creative habit. Through habit, we reconnect with and know ourselves again as a creative being.

I started this, my third, 100 Day Project on June 12th, 2018. My project is to write at least one first-draft stanza inspired by a poem, a quote, an idea, a painting—anything, really (or nothing at all) and to write at least one hundred shitty first-draft words of my novel. I’ll post the results here.

Enjoy!