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Write the Year 2026—Week 23: The Wickedness of Crowds

On the one hand I wish I hadn’t chosen this form (Vers Beaucoup); on the other, it’s interesting to work with. I have a weird relationship with rhyme in straight-up writing (I’m a rhyming/assonance fiend in songwriting). I often think the sing-songy nature makes things sound cheesy (in my own; I like plenty of rhyming poetry from others), so this forcing the rhyme was kind of interesting, and it…

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Write the Year 2026—Week 22: Southside Spring (Late)

Just moving forward, or trying to. A Logolilt  Title: Southside Spring (Late)WC: 57 Sudden blooms: nature. space age grey.just yesterdaybare dirt A permanent wave, tree bark peeled.The season’s yield:rebirth. Skip the summer, a dusty roserushes, then slowsand sleeps. A blushing samara—alone.Unbleached, bare bonestill weeps. Summer and childhood’s ragged ends,yesterday’s…

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Write the Year 2026—Week 21: _Dis_.Order

Just trying to ride on the surface of whatever creativity there is. This is a Lannet. Title: Dis.OrderWC: 85 The flagstones are doling out bad advice—interlopers playing at wildernessJack-in-the-pulpit lifts its heavy headto find the crow-dipper sermonizingNature and fabrication, cheek by jowl. Life, pale and knotted, rises from the earthBedraggled, latter-day Opheliabows to the roadside…

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Write the Year 2026—Week 20: Afterthought Snapshots

Foolishly thought that five syllable lines would be easy, even with oddly placed rhymes. As ever, the joke is on me. I started out with an image I liked, but there are diminishing returns in the next two stanzas of this Le Jeune. Title: Afterthought SnapshotsWC: 67 Skirts caught by the breezeAugust wheat. The shadeof billowing joy.Bare feet dance, arms splayedYou circle, summonEvery whim…

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Bluebird Improv at the Studebaker in Chicago. Fabulous.

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Review: Tartuffe, or, The Charlatan, The Conspirators, Chicago https://www.talkinbroadway.com/page/regional/chicago/ch887.html

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Review: Covenant, Goodman Theatre, Chicago https://www.talkinbroadway.com/page/regional/chicago/ch886.html

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Review: Scaramouche, City Lit Theatre, Chicago https://www.talkinbroadway.com/page/regional/chicago/ch884.html

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Write the Year 2026—Week 19: Say. So.

I had intended to try to write just an essay-like thing this week, but I’m too tied up in knots to get it out. So, another thing that struggles toward poetry, instead. This is a La’Tuin LaFemme that, I guess, is about the planet struggling toward another season, however ill-advised that may be. -ush is a dumb rhyme to have decided on for the one that occurs most frequently, and I probably should…

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Review: Loki—The End of the World Tour, Lifeline Theatre, Chicago https://www.talkinbroadway.com/page/regional/chicago/ch882.html

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Write the Year 2026—Week 18: Saturday Ruminations

Just a Lakelet, arising from an exhausting weekend. Title: Saturday RuminationsWC: 82 The little women in my mindI stretch to see their point of viewAcross the asphalt and the yearsWhere told-you-so must catch the tearsInevitable. True. The fracture comes as no surpriseThe sorrow with a question markThat dances on the tips of tonguesWhile unsaid words fill the lungsForget the haggard…

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Review: The Movement You Need: An Evening with Brendan Hunt, Steppenwolf Theatre, Chicago https://www.talkinbroadway.com/page/regional/chicago/ch881.html

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Review: Out Here, Court Theatre, Chicago https://www.talkinbroadway.com/page/regional/chicago/ch880.html

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Review: Fault, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre https://www.talkinbroadway.com/page/regional/chicago/ch879.html

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Write the year 2026—Week 17: Meri, in Yellow

Nothing complicated here. Today happens to be my cousin’s birthday. We were very close as kids, and she will always have an important place in my heart. This is a Memento. Title: Meri, in YellowWC: 45 Sneaker saver. Puddles of mud.Well water. Rotten eggs.Outside.Culvert. Kittens. After the floodScraped, sunburned, skinny legsEyes wide. Christmas letter. Your handsome boys.Voicemail. I made you…

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Review: Windfall, Steppenwolf Theatre, Chicago https://www.talkinbroadway.com/page/regional/chicago/ch877.html

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Write the Year 2026—Week 16: Missed Connections

Just a Tri-Fall about my (ambivalent at best) feelings about spring. Title: Missed connectionsWC: 68 Buttermilk wings flit byUnawareThat tulips with their dark-eyed graceAwaiting some replyCannot bearThe loneliness of your embrace Branches capture the sunResoluteAs child pirates with swords of woodTheir sandbox battles wonAll their lootHeaped in glittering piles of good Sunflowers bide their…