In Isolation
Today marks one year since the last day that things felt normal. On March 7, 2020, I met a friend for breakfast and saw Onward in theaters and went exploring in a local park. I suppose technically I had another normal …
On Chick-Fil-A
Over on Facebook I help lead a group called “Bracket of Champions,” where we run brackets on topics like Best Halloween Candy, Best Pizza Topping (I am the Mushroom Queen for successfully lobbying Mushrooms to run against pepperoni), Best Holiday …
Cemetery Dirt Between My Toes
My drive to my office is about 35 minutes. Usually it’s a pretty direct route—10 minutes on the expressway, 15 on a straight highway, and the rest is just getting to and from those two roads. Every once in a …
Growing Pains
This was another one from the November PAD challenge, this time on the theme of love/anti-love. It felt appropriate to post on Valentine’s Day. Enjoy the day, folks! Growing Pains Originally written November 24, 2020 “Eww! Girls are gross!” the …
The Little Victories
Today’s poem is from a poem a day challenge I did in grad school, way back when LiveJournal was a thing. I’m a little surprised I hadn’t shared it already, honestly; it holds up pretty well. The “Golden Sun and …
When I Am Playing Minecraft
On Tuesday evening, I hopped on Zoom and taught a friend’s kids about sonnets. Once we covered the basics—rhythm, rhyme—we spent the last half hour collaboratively writing a poem. I suggested Minecraft based on the fact that the younger kids …
In a Senseless World
I wrote today’s poem in November 2019 to the prompt “music.” It’s a Golden Shovel—a poem where the last word in each line matches up with some other phrase. This one uses the first few lines of Andrew Peterson’s marvelous …
Dandelion Seeds
I don’t have much to say about this one. It’s another from my ill-fated book of poems from 2005 or so. I remember walking across campus one spring and thinking of this poem. The superstition comes straight from Madeline L’Engle. …
Leviathan
I thought about posting a more thematic, political poem this week, but it turned out I had already published the one I was thinking of, and, eh, we can all go for something else in the timeline, right? So, here, …
The Road to Uganda 9: Religion, Pure and Undefiled
I wrote this poem last November as part of the Poem a Day Challenge. But more importantly, from the looks of it, I wrote it in the middle of Uganda trip planning, and possibly shortly after Mandy Sydo (the US-side …
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