Sunday, April 26, 2009

Sunday, April 19, 2009

plain

try and write this way:
all words (not names) with one sound.
at times, less is less.

One Single Impression: prompt 60 - One Word

The book "Robinson Crusoe in Words of One Syllable", started my game of writing this way (excepting proper names). The goal of these One Syllable titles was "[books] adapted to the use of the
youngest readers". But in practice, these books are tough going for children. It makes a nice word game, especially if you add the rule that the result must read naturally.

Sunday, April 12, 2009

breathless

uncle wheezed "try some,"
"a scant dram of usquebaugh":
cause follows effect

One Single Impression #59: Live Water

My first impression of whisky was more firewater than Live Water.

Sunday, April 5, 2009

hypervigilance

nano-fog settles
each sigh heard, stored, analyzed:
true security
One Single Impression: Listening

Laurie's perfect moment at April Wine inspired me to envision a scifi moment of perfect Hell, misconceived as total freedom.