Progress: Just finished a pantoum ostensibly about peaches, inspired by a few lines from Bessie Smith’s “Mama’s Got the Blues.” I’m now only one poem behind. Prompt for today: Dash30Dash’s Sunday Bloody Senryu. Mirrored at Vary the Line.

Progress: Well, I’ve been sick. I even took yesterday off work, and I have to be really sick to do that, since – as a temp – I don’t get sick time, and (instead of writing poetry) slept and tried to keep my electrolytes up. I had written a poem about cheese (after the G.K. [...]

Progress: After I posted yesterday, I wrote a pantoum in praise of avocados, and the better part of a poem about oranges, so I’m taking tonight off, eating half-price Easter candy and watching bad television.