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Wiling Away
Can I be too ____ to write these days? Too set, too predictable, too enjambed in my ways, offering too few new words to everyone else,...
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andrew jeter
- Apr 14, 2020
- 1 min
Spring Along a River
(from the NaPoWriMo prompt: write a poem inspired by your favorite kind of music.)[So, two things: 1) a friend asked me the other day...
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andrew jeter
- Apr 3, 2020
- 1 min
April 3, 2020
Sitting by the glass doors my back porch beyond sipping coffee and waiting for my whole wheat English muffins— that I made after watching...
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andrew jeter
- Mar 31, 2020
- 2 min
The Very Very Very Long March
To say that March has been difficult would be, of course, a gross understatement. The world has ended and we are just starting to figure...
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andrew jeter
- Mar 21, 2020
- 1 min
The Writer and His Words
Celebrate World Poetry Day! https://www.un.org/en/observances/world-poetry-day
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andrew jeter
- Feb 1, 2020
- 1 min
The Lifting Fog
Last night one too many Irish coffees & dithering about plans for today Sun rise, deep fog in the trees black brown red fingers pointing...
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andrew jeter
- Nov 1, 2019
- 1 min
Before I Read the News
cold mornings when my bare feet slip on the bathroom’s tiled floor and robins preen in front of our porch a deer starts in the yard when...
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andrew jeter
- Oct 1, 2019
- 1 min
Damnation
There is a pin oak behind my house leaning west over the porch. In the right season, acorns begin dropping on the bleached,...
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andrew jeter
- Sep 1, 2019
- 1 min
What Do You See When You Paint?
>Thank you, James (www.jamesbrandess.com/@jamesbrandess) for the inspiration and the art. You help us all to define "Saugatuck." I know a...
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andrew jeter
- Aug 1, 2019
- 1 min
I Do Not
(Or: On Being Married to a Struggling Writer During National Poetry Writing Month) I said to him: This prompt is hard. How am I supposed...
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andrew jeter
- Jul 1, 2019
- 1 min
Craft Project #1 – Asteria’s Gift
Materials 1 sheet black paper 1 pin 1 lamp, shade optional 1 small ball or orb, 3-5 inches in diameter Instructions Take a sheet of...
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andrew jeter
- Jun 1, 2019
- 1 min
Announcements
(Here is my official return to focusing on So Many Fishes, a collection I am trying to finish by December. Thanks for reading!) I can...
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andrew jeter
- May 12, 2019
- 1 min
The Hardest Part...
The hardest part of writing is writing. I knew that this blog would challenge me, but why was I so out of my mind that I thought I could...
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andrew jeter
- Apr 1, 2019
- 1 min
The Soothsayer
The sandhill cranes silver white fighter bombers in electro-trilling V-formations are returning and in town the ice cream shop windows...
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andrew jeter
- Mar 1, 2019
- 1 min
The Inevitability of Forgetting
It’s on my grocery list but I’ll probably find a way to forget it or I’ll forget the list itself and pull an old tissue from my pocket...
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andrew jeter
- Feb 1, 2019
- 1 min
After the Dervish
It occured to me, one recent frozen morning, that when I wake with a song I have not heard in years stuck in my head— trilling off my...
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