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Photo: Laura Purdie Salas Wake up your poetry brains with 15 Words or Less (guidelines here)! Here’s a seedhead from fall. I love how odd and prickly they look!?Here’s what this image?makes me think of: 1)?Brillo pad 2) Spiderweb 3) Hair going grey And here’s my poem first draft: Cinderella’s

Photo: Laura Purdie Salas Wake up your poetry brains with 15 Words or Less (guidelines here)! Here’s the atrium ceiling from the cruise ship we were on in late December. I love glass ceilings! Here are a few things this one makes me think of. 1)?The carapace of a beetle

Photo: Laura Purdie Salas Wake up your poetry brains with 15 Words or Less (guidelines here)! Here are the roots of a cool tree in the Bahamas–I think this was at a beach in Freeport. Here’s what this image?makes me think of: 1)?Knotted shoelaces 2) Mermaid hair 3) Medusa And

Photo: Laura Purdie Salas Wake up your poetry brains with 15 Words or Less (guidelines here)! Here’s what this image?makes me think of: 1)?Glasses of juice 2) Sunset 3) Tropical Lifesavers And here’s my poem first draft: Sunrise She squeezed Sun, caught each drop in morning’s clear glass… served the

Just updated my What’s New page for January. If you’re interested in what I’m excited about and what I’m not excited about in my writing life this month, feel free to drop by! And share what’s on your excited/not excited list in your comment:>) Photo: Laura Purdie Salas Wake up

Photo: Laura Purdie Salas Wake up your poetry brains with 15 Words or Less (guidelines here)! The lion in the MGM lobby at NCTE in Vegas was in a boxing ring to promote some upcoming big boxing match. It was an arresting image, this gold lion in a velvet-roped cage.

Photo: Laura Purdie Salas Wake up your poetry brains with 15 Words or Less (guidelines here)! This week’s image makes me think of: 1)?Scuba diving 2) Bat wings 3) Wading in Lake Superior and feeling the sharp rocks right through my water shoes And here’s my poem first draft: My