I got down with my pen and laptop at the 2008 NY Writers’ Coalition Write-a-Thon yesterday. Here is a sample of some bits I wrote–the RESULTS of the Send me a Writing Idea Competition! (selected by independent judge C. Phillips).
Runner Up – T. Mallie!
haiku for T. Mallie
lace panties annoy
the sort of girl who prefers
paper to plastic
Runner Up – Suzanne Peters!
haiku for Siouxzan
more letters make Jaiyne
a special girl, smarter girl–
Mahm and Dadd should know!
WINNER of the IDEA CONTEST (probably slightly biased since at this time we have a very cute cat living with us): WENDY FRY PALMER!
Ode to Betty
A cat reclines
in poster board stickers
ignominiously on my bed.
A cat divines
the latter day remnants
of glories soft and dead.
A cat reminds
the casual looker
of day lilies bowing their heads.
In the season of spring
a cat refines
its derelict secrets
like butter thickly spread.
As spring moves away
A cat turns to play
In the blue light that moves night to day.
A cat defines the sweetest sours
Time whittled splinters
Seconds from hours
The flesh of life
in the downiest flowers–
Legs and tail diverted
By uncontrolled powers.
A cat resigns
Tongue licking at arsehole
Without a word said.
