Out the Window, Wednesday

Nancy Flynn Apostrophe Blog Archive, Musings, Political News, Stream of Consciousness Archive, Wisdom

Out the window, Wednesday, there’s still life, flora and fauna, chittering nut hatches, bleating red-tailed squirrels. One of my cats sits at the base of a Doug fir, waiting, hoping, but the odds are against him, just like they are against me, too, in spite of all my pretending that I’ll figure it out, find the answer, we end up the same, dead in the end…

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The Individuality of a Poetry Signature

Nancy Flynn Apostrophe Blog Archive, Wisdom, Writing

Is it, perhaps, the most famous cursive signature in American history? And, now that I think about it—and given all the other handwritten flourishes that graces the documents created by the so-called founding fathers—why was John Hancock the one who had his moniker celebrated above and beyond all the rest? The history books offer something of an explanation but who knows if it is even true

 
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Playing with Form: The Abecedarian

Nancy Flynn Apostrophe Blog Archive, Poetic Form, Publication News, Writing

In Summer 2018, riverbabble published my poem, “First Line of Defense: A Cento.” Not only does this poem use the cento form, stitching together lines borrowed from other poets into a poem all its own, but it is also an (almost) abecedarian. An abecedarian is a poem in which the first letter of each line or stanza follows sequentially through the alphabet…

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Publication News: “Remembering Gravity”

Nancy Flynn Apostrophe Blog Archive, Publication News, Writing

Here is another one of my old chestnuts I Publication News: “Remembering Gravity”

Here is another one of my old chestnuts, as I call them—ditties I wrote when I was just taking up the pen and paper again almost twenty years ago and trying to re-learn what makes a good poem. Looking at these oldies but goodies again now, in 2024, I can see I would write them very differently now!

 
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When the art monster turns out to be someone beloved…

Nancy Flynn Apostrophe Blog Archive, Writing

Sometimes the secrets we keep in life we are able to quietly take to the grave. Other times there are secrets—perhaps buried, elided, squelched, ignored, dismissed, and discounted for decades—bubble back up to the surface, break through, causing a seismic wave especially when the secret-keeper is both beloved and well-known

 
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