Pluto’s demotion from planet to dwarf planet feels a bit like moving the goal posts during a football game. Today’s poem’s subject is Pluto.
Poetry + fiction + photos + other thoughts
Category: Natl Poetry Month 2024
A slant, or approximate sonnet for today’s poem during National Poetry Month.
What’s similar about coneflowers and hedgehogs? They’re spiny! The coneflower’s scientific name, Echinacea, comes from the Greek word for hedgehog.
The Filmmakers Called it Art is a poem from my book, Stars Crawl Out From Their Caves. It is an ekphrastic poem, inspired by a documentary about factories that have closed.
A poem inspired by one of Monet’s many paintings of waterlilies.