Quick Ones, While He's Away

10 You Stay Away

When I'm not angry I am drawn to write- trite- like- "People are in your life For a season, For a reason." But I want to say it my way:

A three-story folded-trailer Sectioned off and unusual And I, newly banished from home, Forced to pay for the key With a friendly neighbor.

There is no forwarding address But a curse Where each floor refuse to converse With one another, Content with being Glorified Storage For all of our memories And familial obligations. May you never return.

11 Mermaid's Revenge

Erasure poetry — also known as blackout poetry — is written by taking an existing text and erasing or blacking out individual words.

Text from my short story, Yung Seabitch. Below is the image, which is transcribed here:

I offer That Danish Andersen fellow the sense to make the sea roll.

_They made her A vindictive gorgeous merfolk, fat AND subtle. _

_No drivel from the land know the merfolk so much, but I turn her into wonder obligatory seaside cursing a happy ending. _

_I have suffered have been stuck blind with the thorns. _

She only meant well.

The music pipes sigh pop a ton of songs. Trudge along.

12 distance between moon and earth

Today, we’d like to challenge you to write your own poem that recounts a memory of a beloved relative, and something they did that echoes through your thoughts today.

Even after the orbit decayed beyond her death my grandmother, the moon grew blue clouds and pipes of fire so well, and cloaked me in silk with a wrist of goldplate and zircon. to this day, I don't know how. I just distill flattened grains from the heavy pans of my life.

13 Twin Raintrees

Try your hand today at writing your own poem about a remembered, cherished landscape.

I have two more siblings, Twins. They are so much taller And protective Like the fiercest father. They watched over me When I tumbled into twilight, And carefully haunt me still. They could never move, Rooted, So they live through me As I send letters home Through the wires and wind.