#NaPoWriMo 2024 - day three

I first encountered your torqued ellipses
on an overcast autumn day in Seoul

Giant slabs of corroded steel slowly twisting
through a giant empty warehouse space

Walking between them everything shifted
or I shifted or I became aware of shifting

bodies moving through space, light
folding over the tops drifting down into corridors

Sound moving away from me and yet also amplified
as I walked and touched these metal skins

A slight vertigo that lessened
when I focussed on my footsteps, breathing

I found myself more anchored in my body
discovered a comfort in my own weight

found myself later testing that body against
what imposes fragility, or wakens awe.

#NaPoWriMo 2024 - day two

here is a puzzle
                                    the melody of your body
the most important thing
                                    under my skin
becomes the problem
                                    how to solve mysteries
what you take hold of
                                    beyond the words
takes hold of you
                                    requires another language
in motion or at rest
                                    a different kind of power
in sickness or in health
                                    a surrender
late at night naked in bed
                                    abandonment
or bathing in sunlight
                                    a veil
sitting quiet with the birds
                                    our hands
their thin bones
                                    hollowed
a singular beauty
                                    conducting us home

#NaPoWriMo 2024 - day one

they told me to start with the weather
but it was too beautiful outside
 
the house cool and quiet
 
so i spent the day slumbering
on the sectional
 
it’s Easter Monday and it’s April Fool’s
and all i can think about is
 
how to get up on my feet again
and drink enough water
 
the awkwardness of being
a burden to others
 
the shame of being sick
the betrayal of my body
 
all the seasons are changing
 
i just want to enjoy the wind
and the sun on my skin
 
fill my lungs
with you again and again

NaPoWriMo 2024!

It's April again, and it's another opportunity to stretch and challenge myself to write or unearth a poem each day.

In Canada, the League of Canadian Poets has chosen weather as their theme, inviting us to "delve into the experiences, feelings, and inspiration that weather offers."

In the United States, the Academy of American Poets doesn't expressly have a theme but aims to celebrate "poets’ integral role in our culture and that poetry matters."

   

There are, of course, others attempting this challenge, and you can find a global listing of participants at NaPoWriMo.

I haven't yet decided whether I will attempt to write a poem each day from scratch or try some more erasure/ extraction poems -- or perhaps even try some #vispo experiments!

In any case, please follow along, make suggestions, offer critique, share...

#NaHaiWriMo - curtains/ extra

you grow a skin
to keep out the light
that draws around you

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always one more thing
that leads to one more thing
leading to one less thing