Narrative Paralysis

Ebbs and Flows and Fits and Starts

Thursday, April 30, 2026

Napowrimo 4/30/26: cicada court

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  It's the end of the month. If I sent this to you every day and you didn't want to punch me, I owe you a coffee or something. Here...
Wednesday, April 29, 2026

Napowrimo 4/29/26: morning path

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Today's Napowrimo prompt is some time travel of sorts; a poem where past and future selves consider one another.  early morning me- befo...
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Tuesday, April 28, 2026

Napowrimo 4/28/26: the bootleggers

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Today's Napowrimo prompt  follows a formula of 6 lines composed of 3 sentences: a statement, a question, a conclusion. with some effort,...
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Monday, April 27, 2026

Napowrimo 4/27/26: proceedings

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  Today's Napowrimo prompt  is to write a poem of instructions using the same stanza structure. four ways to  skin your finger were give...
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Sunday, April 26, 2026

Napowrimo 4/26/26: ars poetica

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Today's Napowrimo prompt challenges us to write an "ars poetica" poem. I love this sort of thing, in case you were wondering. ...
Saturday, April 25, 2026

Napowrimo 4/25/26: afternoon and a chair

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  Today's Napowrimo prompt seeks to clarify a metaphor through repeated, varied usages. Let's see what comes from this. a lonely sea...
Friday, April 24, 2026

Napowrimo 4/24/26: stray holiday

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  Today's Napowrimo prompt asserts night is the time where strange things occur and no one is there to notice it. Here is a poem where t...
Thursday, April 23, 2026

Napowrimo 4/23/26: some form of tradition

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Today's Napowrimo prompt demanded a loose villanelle and I forced myself to write something more traditional . Here's what I came up...
Wednesday, April 22, 2026

Napowrimo 4/22/26: semantic shuffle featuring the mirror

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 Today's Napowrimo prompt has a request to have a speaker in dialogue with himself, which is also my default way of thinking. ...say you...
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Tuesday, April 21, 2026

Napowrimo 4/21/26: the names and the names

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 Today's Napowrimo prompt has nicknames and more nicknames. I found two odd ones for flowers and went with it. Goatsbeard and Beardtong...
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Monday, April 20, 2026

Napowrimo 4/20/26: Fable

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Today's prompt from Napowrimo fuses animal and contemporary personhood. This is not quite that, but it felt as right as anything else mi...
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Sunday, April 19, 2026

Napowrimo 4/19/26: American Botany

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  Today's Napowrimo prompt provides us with the ebook of The Language of Flowers and suggests exploring the connections with selected fl...
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Saturday, April 18, 2026

Napowrimo 4/18/26: Operator Operaretta

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 Today's prompt Napowrimo insists we write a dramatic piece of a poem with rhymes and stuff. OK, I'll bite. dizzy and drained of a ...
Friday, April 17, 2026

Napowrimo 4/17/26: The World is Tired

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 Today's Napowrimo prompt considers a response to a favorite poem. I chose Franny Choi's " The World Keeps Ending, and the Worl...
Thursday, April 16, 2026

Napowrimo 4/16/26: Old, Reliable Echo Meets the River in the New Millenium

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  Today's Napowrimo prompt inspires us to write about an unspeaking thing that has still somehow shared a message. the television is a s...
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