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Write the Year 2026—Week 30: Retrospect

Tired. Saw Rashomon. IDK. It’s a LaJemme. Title: RetrospectWC: 139 Disintegration. You forgot to lookAnd all it took was a sidewalk chalk gameA whispered name you promised to forgetA future set in stone now undoes us Time slips through cracks in the clock faceWe can’t erase the nettled stingThe off-key ring of tuneless lossAll of this costs too much Fingers linked, pull me to the…

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Write the Year 2026—Week 29: In Tension

I was going to do a different thing; I gave myself PERMISSION to do a different thing. But then the self-loathing came for the different thing, and I abandoned it about halfway through. So I did this thing. It’s a Monchielle. Title: In TensionWC: 86 These used to be my wingsNow they are vibrationsAmong circlets of boneAnd swaying blades of grassThey know the ways of stone These used to be my…

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Write the Year 2026—Week 28: Assorted

Very pressed for time this week, so just a handful of American Sentence Poem entries. AggressorWC: 13Pushing up the sidewalk to trip the unwary—the roots were here first. ShamefacedWC: 11Auntie wriggles sunburned shoulders and scolds the smudge of lingering moon. Well-WornWC: 14You, my love, are the dimple in the soft crown of my favorite hat. FabricationWC: 11Never mind the peonies nodding…

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Review: Suffs, National Tour, CIBC Theatre, Chicago https://www.talkinbroadway.com/page/regional/chicago/ch902.html

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Write the Year 2026—Week 27: Weekend Sweet

Just a Sunday-night panic write. This is a Compound Word Verse. Title: Weekend SweetWC: 58 Vermillion, low to the groundSummer’s strawberry tricks aboundNone too sweet Racing against the looming rainA creaking sailboat weather vaneSpins sweetly A world littered with wind-scoured dreamsMelodramatic swollen streamsBittersweet Iridescent tension—a flashDragonfly wings, brilliant and brashGreen…

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Review: Iceboy! Or The Completely Untrue Story of How Eugene O'Neill Came to Write The Iceman Cometh, Goodman Theatre, Chicago https://www.talkinbroadway.com/page/regional/chicago/ch901.html

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Review: St. Nicholas, Black Button Eyes Productions, Chicago https://www.talkinbroadway.com/page/regional/chicago/ch900.html

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Write the Year 2026—Week 26: Block Party

This is a Decuain that started out rather grim, as it was inspired by a couple of rather dark images. But then it it just called up images of . . . well, block parties. Dumb little thing. Title: Block PartyWC: 63 A fallen fence and one abandoned flagA curl of ribbon wilting in the heatThe sing-song taunts of cousins playing tagThe hydrant roars, a river in the streetAsphalt steaming, ceaseless…

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Review: Two Out of Three Falls, The Factory Theater, Chicago https://www.talkinbroadway.com/page/regional/chicago/ch899.html

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Review: Deserted, Redtwist Theatre, Chicago https://www.talkinbroadway.com/page/regional/chicago/ch897.html

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Write the Year 2026—Week 25: For Sale

Well, I finally wrote the story I’ve been thinking about for a few weeks. I guess thank the Sunday scaries. This started out as part of a song. The assignment was to write something with two characters. I had a clear image of Lucy telling truths on the lawn, but then I couldn’t figure out how the other character figured in, so after writing an entire verse and most of a chorus, I scrapped it. I…

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Review: Catch as Catch Can, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Chicago https://talkinbroadway.com/page/regional/chicago/ch895.html

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Review: Untitled Vampire Play, Lookingglass Theatre, Chicago https://www.talkinbroadway.com/page/regional/chicago/ch894.html

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Write the Year 2026—Week 24

Again, should’ve written a story, but didn’t. This is an amphion. Title: ForetellingWC: 38 Her grandmother’s second-best shawlTasseled and blackCorners—exactFolding-table fortunes tell allA dead-stare truthThe serpent’s toothLiberation comes for the braveWho want to knowWho seek althoughThey’ve long-since shed the self they’ll save

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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…