cooler night –
katydids compete
with sirens
Month: August 2021
Quotable 420
Writing is not just what happens at a desk. It happens everywhere and always, whenever your mind encounters a thought it wants to wrap words around.
– Kevin Coyne
haiku 537
storm arrives –
raccoon tracks
across the porch
Quotable 419
I can always write. Sometimes, to be sure, what I write is crap, but it’s words on the page and therefore it is something to work with.
– Geraldine Brooks
haiku 536
dark low clouds and sun –
grass grows over
prairie dog mounds
Quotable 418
Writers had better not be too cocksure that they’ve got inspiration on their side.
– J.H. Prynne
haiku 535
one, two
threefourfive kits
then the mother raccoon
Quotable 417
Being a writer isn’t some grand, mystical state of being, it just means you put words together to amuse people, most of all yourself.
– John Scalzi
haiku 534
alone –
heart-shaped
rubber band