Ventomology

9. So we both have opposable thumbs, jeer the raccoons. But who is in charge now? Do you really have to rub this in? I ask from my window. The ...

8. My modern dance professor told us that modern dance focuses on the root of movement. Fingertips pull fingers pull palms. Hands pull forearms pull elbows pull pull pull pull ...

7. [insert long yell.] Hey, weather! Whether'r not you've got a plan in mind, would you mind? Taking the time to make up your dang mind? Like yeah, I know ...

Ahhh a sonnet! The theme is beautiful and consistent, and that last line at the end is the perfect small twist. I love it!

6. Where did the time go? Is it lost in the tick-tock of my clock, the click-clack of keys, or the slow row of light across the floor? Is it ...

5. Sunday Sonnet No. 1 The orange light of evening blazes bright, a warm, unsett’ling flame to boil my blood. A haze erases my thoughts as a blight would burn ...

4. Sometimes it begins in the front of the nose, stirs up the sinuses, sets mucous ahiss. The harsh, shushed noise goes whsss whsss . Others, it starts at the ...

3. Late morning floats in through my south-east-facing window. It casts a patch of sunlight on the carpet. The soft, tiny strands cast their own tiny shadows, a painting framed ...

2. tick goes the bar on the download screen tick - -ing towards the moment when my download goes green tick - -ing down the seconds 'till I see my ...

1. Funny how when we decompress, we drop the tension, relieve the stress. We hunch and sigh. We droop and sink. Our spines compress us away from the brink.

In here for the next like 9 hours probably

Well that didn't take me an entire quarter to write. Anyways, I hope I put us in a spot where a lot of the characters are sort of together, even ...

Peony Lin Scene xi: Okay That is in Fact a Large Boat Peony wasn't sure how she ended up with the most awkward person in existence as her only new ...

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30 poems in 30 days? Let's do it! In 2018, I wrote little complaints, and in 2019 I focused each poem on an emotion. This year, I'd like to work ...