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Day 10

Day 10 – Total confirmed cases in the US: 55,225 Fiction, if not the last refuge of a scoundrel, is a list a brief refuge from the number at the top of the page that won’t stop climbing. Today’s distraction is flash fiction and a drawing: The breeze blew sweet in Turner Valley. Slow andContinue reading “Day 10”

Posted bymikepowernycMarch 25, 2020Posted inart, fiction, writingTags:drawing, fiction, flash fiction, plague diary, sketch, writingLeave a comment on Day 10

First Impression

I try to make a lousy first impression to avoid heightened expectations and other forms of complications There will be time for explanations later later later later

Posted bymikepowernycJanuary 14, 2020January 14, 2020Posted inart, poetry, writingTags:drawing, original poem, poem, poetry, self-portrait, sketch, sketchbookLeave a comment on First Impression

Touch me kindly

Touch me kindly if you can I don’t know if I can feel any other touch Speak to me softly I will hear I have been training my ears to hear only quiet sounds Look at me with love or mercy if that’s the best that you can do I will look at you withContinue reading “Touch me kindly”

Posted bymikepowernycDecember 23, 2019Posted inpoetry, writingTags:drawing, original poem, poem, sketch, sketchbookLeave a comment on Touch me kindly

other than love

Everything other than love is illusion and delusion distraction and destruction a waste of time and degrees of separation and digression from consummation and veils of obstruction and excuses for confusion and medicine for diseases that we haven’t invented yet

Posted bymikepowernycDecember 19, 2019Posted inart, writingTags:citysketch, drawing, original poem, poem, poetry, sketch, sketchbook, treesLeave a comment on other than love

Behind the long stare

When I was young Hands pulled at my skirt. Now children and grandchildren Tug at my hands Seventh Century Japanese rice-planting song

Posted bymikepowernycOctober 9, 2019October 9, 2019Posted inpoetry, writingTags:drawing, japanese, poem, poetry, sketchLeave a comment on Behind the long stare

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