“Blank” is a state of pre-being, emptiness, isolation. erasure. This poem has 30+ uses of ‘blank’ — you tell me if it’s too much or not enough.
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Tag: Poems
Worst. Flight. Ever. To. Djimma. The first time I went to Ethiopia was just about twenty years ago now. The flight my colleague and I took from Addis Ababa to Djimma still holds the record for worst plane flight I’ve…
I offer a newish poem, So Clear Now. It’s one of those coming-of-age circumstances when suddenly you realize what you thought was a certain thing turns out to be not exactly right.
Remember the story of Perseus and Medusa? Here’s a version in which their relationship is something other than monster-hero., from Medusa’s point of view.
Genie, After the Split So the mythical genie in the bottle — don’t you always feel sorry for the genie? He or she is trapped in there, squished down, sometimes from a much-larger-than-human size, to fit inside something that, if…