Johannes (Jan) Vermeer (1632–1675) was one of the foremost Dutch artists of the 17th century.

He remained relatively obscure during his lifetime and until the end of the nineteenth century, mainly because he produced only about forty-five paintings (of which thirty-six are known today) during his brief lifetime, primarily for…

Today’s prompt is leaves.

disappointment and despair the showy explosion lasts only a week or two 
then the lie is exposed 
the bursts of color that promised life and beauty 
decay to brown 
the leaves abandon their posts 
fall lifeless to the ground all that's left are stark gray trunks…

Today’s prompt is theater.

Photo of the 2007 Portland Center Stage Production of West Side Story, “America.”

West Side Story  somewhere in the wings 
my son awaits his cue
his heartbeat audible to himself 
out of sync with 
the latin music 
the band plays when he signed up for 
the…

Today’s prompt is how to spend the weekend, but you know, when you’re retired, weekends don’t have the impact they used to-we’re on perpetual Saturday. I chose The Bop as the form.

Retirement our calendar is all weekends now 
each day indistinguishable from another 
no workweek to give us structure…

One thing the pandemic has shown me is that I’m quite content wearing the same 10 outfits over and over again.

Now, I’m retired. My husband has health issues, so I really don’t venture out much. There are still 2,000 new cases of Covid-19 every day in my county, and…

Today’s prompt is to write a pantoum about the change of seasons. I live in Arizona, and up to September 23, we were still getting temperatures of 100 degrees or more.

Sonoran desert, October Goodbye to temps of 100 degrees- 
the blazing sun was getting old. 
I've ditched my tanks…