It’s all in the timing

I had a number of false starts with the 52 theme this week. It just wasn’t resonating strongly enough for me to find a foothold to begin from. That can happen – and it certainly isn’t the first time it’s happened during these past six months of working on the project. In fact, a part … Continue reading →

In the Year of the Virus

I must be honest, my mind hasn’t really been on my writing this past week. Some mundane and usually straightforward aspects of life – shopping for food and other essentials, for instance – have been turned into major issues that take considerably more time and planning than they used to, not so long ago. Not … Continue reading →

Halfway up a hill

This feels like quite a significant post, in its own small way – nowhere near earth shatteringly important, but a personal milestone of sorts. Because it marks the halfway point in my 52 project. Yes, 26 weeks, 26 poems. To be honest, it feels less like being on the peak of a mountain and thinking, … Continue reading →

Storm

I may have over-dramatised the reality of the storm, in writing this one.There really was a Storm Jorge, and it did cause the fence panels at the end of our garden to shudder a bit, but it was nowhere near as ferocious for us as the poem makes out. There wasn’t a fox on our … Continue reading →

Turquoise

I ought to begin this week’s 52 poem post with a disclaimer, to the effect that all persons and situations in the following poem are entirely fictional and are not based on any real individuals either living or deceased. Because there does seem to be an idea floating around, even (absurdly) among more than a … Continue reading →

Waghorn in the desert

I think writing the poems that are included in Dramatis Personae had prepared me for this week’s 52 challenge, as once I had the subject in my sights the actual process was both familiar and quite smooth. Choosing my subject, in fact, was the hard part. I had to mentally sift through dozens of possibilities … Continue reading →

Storms and snowdrops

Having mentioned prose-poems last week, this week’s 52 theme has been a happy coincidence. As for subject, I really only had to look out of my study window to find that. We’ve been racked by storms, lately (and another one is brewing as I am writing here). It has to be said that storms are … Continue reading →