January 1, 2024
Back to work Tuesday
Anticipation, some dread
Need another week
January 2, 2024
Twenty twenty-four
Chance, Promise, Adventure, Joy
Fuck I’m getting old
January 3, 2024
3.5 years and
6 vaccinations, first time
Testing positive
January 4, 2024
Home sick, love story
Eyes rolling, “You’re not dying”
“Bring me chocolate.”
January 5, 2024
Hazy thoughts, hours bloom
Fitful sleep with snuggling dog
My quarantine womb
January 6, 2024
OCD counting
One Two Three Four Five Six Sev
Crap, let me recount
January 7, 2024
Nestled by the tree
All is calm, all is bright, and
I’m soothed one last night
January 8, 2024
Eight deer this morning!
The Corgi: not in my yard
Bark, scatter! Job done
January 9, 2024
Patiently, in time
Forgivingly, I will find
Softly, my rhythm
January 10, 2024
A hard nap left me
Groggy and moody, and now
Up until midnight
January 11, 2024
Mom texted, lonely
here, while you have been there, sick
in my heart to hear
January 12, 2024
Testing positive
Still, house arrest continues
Walls are closing in!
January 13, 2024*
My covid complaints —
That’s a lot of whine for a
Dry January
*Today’s challenge was to use a pun
January 14, 2024
My body is bound
Weighted and stuck to the ground
But my mind can soar
January 15, 2024
A sprout of hair curls
At his collar, seducing
And I look, away
January 16, 2024
The silence that comes
With snowfall, the world dampened
At one with nature
January 17, 2024
Stretch bark run! Treat? Sploot
Ball! More pets. Dinner, snuggle
A day in the life
January 18, 2024*
Trample your spirit
Drain your soul. Corporations
It’s a thing they do
*Today’s challenge was to use “It’s a thing they do” as the last line
January 19, 2024
A difficult day,
but for a moment, seeing
her magnificence
January 20, 2024
I have to let go
Of the anger, and focus
Not on them. On me
January 21, 2024
Moonlight falls softly
Tracks in the snow, glittering
The hare won't be seen
January 22, 2024
Procrastination
I can't put this off longer
Oh hello TikTok
January 23, 2024
my heart relaxes
anxiety abated
fragile happiness
January 24, 2024*
When heedless he perched
Self-centered feckless edge hewn
Then felled, wrecked ’n strewn
*Today’s challenge was to write a “univocal lipogram”, that is, only use a single vowel
January 25, 2024
A sing along tune
Goodbye Horses, great truly
I’d fuck me so hard
January 26, 2024
Fog like mother's hand,
A soft kiss, tucking us in
Dreams lift by morning
January 27, 2024
Bit by bit I see
The deterioration
Her dog a constant
January 28, 2024*
Chortling childishly
Chasten chastened, cheeks cherried
Church chattering chilled
*Today’s challenge was to use “consonantal alliteration”, that is, start each word with the same consonant
January 29, 2024
Nice truck dude, so big!
Sorry about your small dick
Passing you laughing
January 30, 2024
Tough conversations
My mind goes through all the fears
Catastrophizing
January 31, 2024
One month: syllables,
intimacies, and nonsense
‘leven more to come!