Tell me about your mother’s kitchen – or auntie’s or granny’s or stepmom’s kitchen. Write for 10 minutes—GO!

Focus on the heart of what happened there, a lesson you learned there. Write a poem in the form of a recipe. What are the ingredients? How much of each? How mixed or blended or churned? Warnings, tips, and tricks to make it turn out. Did it turn out? What is made?  Write for 15 minutes. Ready?  Go!

Tell me about all the things you can loose.  Write for 10 minutes.

In your free write, underline phrases, words, whole lines that seem interesting, fresh, have energy, are reverberant…and be generous with yourself. Pair those selections together and let them be the psychological bones for a poem. Make conscious connections among them, weaving them together to write a poem. (OR) Write a poem about all the things you can loose, about stages of loosing, or about loosing one thing.  Write for 15 minutes.