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Jo McCrory is a writer and artist living in northern California.

  • July haiku 25:31

    So many things are in flux right now. On the one hand, there are a lot of good things: new creative energy, making new friends, finding new things that inspire me, getting to share it with my little audience. On the other hand, there are a lot of less good things. The problem with healing one old injury is that now you notice all the other injuries you were ignoring because that one took up all your energy. You find new traumas you didn’t know you had picked up along the way, and then you get to figure out how to juggle those with everything else.

    Devastation, joy
    Death, rebirth, phoenix rises
    Shake it off and go

  • too much

    Let’s drink too much coffee
    and stay up all night
    Have a poetry slam 
    Loser has to make breakfast
    Let’s exchange haiku
    Crafted with words that sit heavy
    On our tongues 
    Describe something delicate
    In words made of soft cotton
    Open your mouth
    So that I may plant this seed
    Under your tongue
    And watch it grow

    -rjm