Sleepover (4/30)

Pillowed heads

side-by-side in bed

in the corner room

with the ochre walls

that you can't see 

with the lights out.

Bare feet

poking out from the sheets

that cover the bed

with the pillowed heads

in the corner room

with the ochre walls

that you can't see

with the lights out.

Unquiet minds

that speak whispers 

and rustle the blinds

beside the bare feet

that poke out from the sheets

that cover the bed 

with the pillowed heads

in the corner room

with the ochre walls

that you can't see 

with the lights out.

Scene from an Auction (4/29)

75 and now 80
80 dollars and we're onto
90! 90 dollars from the lady in the back.
And now who'll give me 95?
90 dollars now going at 95
95,
90 dollars and now 95,
do I see 95?
90 dollars and now
95! 95?
Sold! for 90 dollars!
and your number is...
11, number 11

Study Break Poems (4/26 - 4/28)

Finals week proved to be the hardest week for me in April's poetry challenge. Instead of taking my 11:30-12pm block of time for poetry writing, I started taking advantage of small study brain farts and moments of exasperation. When such a moment crept upon me, out of the books and papers strewn about me, I would lean over to the wall beside me, and make a magnetic poem. These poems were use small collections of words, like the ones you see below. Usually, the words were close together, so all I really had to do was push them into form with my pointer finger (Things have to be simple during finals week. Anything passed simple is strictly overwhelming.) And so, without further introduction, I present to you, my simple (and semi-humorous) magnetic poetry.