loose threads

a smattering of things

  • happy april, my friends! i know things have been a little quiet around these parts but for good reason: i’ve been working on other creative outlets, primarily painting, and practicing small, one-off embroidery projects. april, however, is all about poetry!

    april is national poetry writing month, an off-shoot of national novel writing month (nanowrimo), which occurs in november. if you’ve been following me around the internet for long enough, you know i’ve participated in nanowrimo in the past (and won! which means i wrote at least 50k words in 30 days – the story was absolute shit and would never win a real award lol)

    i’m have amassed a huge number of prompts for the month and will be sharing work daily on the blog, instagram, and facebook (i have a facebook page! like and follow and all that), so expect overlap.

    i will also try to share my favorite poems and work i’ve discovered from the amazing poets i follow. it’s shaping up to be an exciting month!

    what are your plans for april??

  • the squirrels in the backyard
    sit in the low branches of the
    redwood trees with their freshly
    plucked citrus globes, which
    they split in half and consume
    one part at a time, hollowing
    out the peel to the pith before
    moving on to the other side —
    occasionally, a squirrel will drop
    her orange bowl with a juicy
    thwump and we will watch one
    another, a human hollowed out with
    missing and a squirrel plump with
    having.

    -rjm