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Then I Saw What the Calling Was All the voices of the wood called “Muriel!” but it was soon solved;    it was nothing, it was not for me. Th...

Eleven More Poems for Poetry Month 1. Thought: "71 poems.  One for each year of my life."  A minute later: "Wait." ...

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As I have done for the last several years, I'm writing a poem a day in April for NaPoWriMo .  This year, my poems are over at Poetrycru...

(For Todd Colby and Jennifer Lazo.) Mostly a person who walked around with a smile plastered on her face would be assumed to have somethin...

(a collaborative poem with Todd Colby)  Certain things will cheer you up: Holding a pencil between your teeth  to make a sort of grima...

1.  "I shall not pass this way again."  --William Penn 2.  A child in white.  A tug on the foot. 3. Boots in the mud, then a b...

by Joanna Penn Cooper and Todd Colby Peacock Crossing We have no photographic evidence of our time together, save that one picture of ...

(a collaboration with Todd Colby)   Which world are you staining? It appears blurry. In your frenzy to avoid kitsch, you've render...

"Elephant" is one of the words my 21 month-old son says.  It is also the subject of this poem from my chapbook Crown .  (The ...

Early in our relationship, my college boyfriend Jason compared his affection for me to the last can of gasoline in a Mad Max-like world. ...

1.  I'm not sure I can be attractive enough to distract you from mortality on a daily basis.  Maybe in a series of carefully selected a...

Wow, it's already the 14th.  Oh, man.  Here are five things: 1.  I missed the super moon because right after I put on my shoes to g...

At the playground, E. became fascinated with a little girl whose mother was selling snow cones, and the girl and I chatted briefly while the...

"I would like to be inside the lights of these peoples' houses (with our ancient nostalgia for fire) but not inside these live...

Somehow I missed a day in my August posts.  Oh, well. Here's an observation for today:  I had to go to a doctor's appointment on 5...

Photo from tvguide.com My observation for 8/5:  Going to the Barnes and Noble at Union Square always reminds me of the time I saw Brig...

photo by Joe Pan I get the baby to sleep and rush to the reading. At first I get into a car I think is the car I called, and the man ...

Last night, I had a dream that my friend Anna and I were going to explore some catacombs somewhere in France.  No one knew what was down...