Day 24 & dVerse: Hopeful elegy in 44 words

Today’s poem answers to two prompts. How did that happen? I almost wished to write a poem outside of the NaPoWriMo prompt today, for the first time, since it’s about death and I had a happy birthday post to post. But then I learned about …

Day 11: The future in a cemetery

Challenge 11: “A poem that addresses the future.” Dressing the future My future? That’s an easy one. I die. We all die. It’s so certain that there’s no need for Future or Future Perfect Tense. I die. First, the perfect present continues – “I have been …

Bad smell

You know when you order clothes online and they don’t really fit but you can’t be bothered to send them back? “Niko sent us,” he said, the boy I busted climbing over the fence to our garden. He showed me the map of the neighbourhood …