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Sunday Morning Tea: Apr 21, 2024
Recently, I’ve been suffering from writer’s paralysis. Different from writer’s block, when I can’t think of anything to write, my problem is that I’m frozen with too many story ideas to write. Continue reading
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IWSG: In Defense of AI
This post may ruffle a few feathers and may very well get me put on somebody’s “do not read” list, but at the risk of getting canceled before my author career even starts, here is why I think we should… Continue reading
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#BlaPoWriMo: Southern Cooking
He calls me weird because I like cheese / on my hotdog, slaw on my burger. / When the fire dies down, I pour lighter / fluid on the charcoal pyramid and blacken / my chicken… Continue reading
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#BlaPoWriMo: 1870
I have only a name and a year— / 1870—five years after the Civil War, / when my people became a people, / though we were always a people— / people without names, without faces… Continue reading
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#BlaPoWriMo: wildflowers
Love Haiku #22 Continue reading
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#BlaPoWriMo: Black country
Coastal Carolina born and raised / spat from my daddy’s Gullah-Geechee / tongue in the salty marshlands of / South Carolina, shuckin’ corn in the / backwoods farmland of eastern North Carolina… Continue reading
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#BlaPoWriMo: This Is America
Our values are misguided, / corrupted. / A life is meaningless / against a car, / a phone, a pair of shoes. / A seventeen-year-old boy faces seventeen years for / strong-armed robbery… Continue reading
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#BlaPoWriMo: Psalm 90
a negro preacher’s haiku Continue reading
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#BlaPoWriMo: The Darker the Berry…
Love Tanka # 6 Continue reading