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The love of laundry – 100 words

January 21, 2024 By Ellen

The love of laundry   Your clothes are puddled, shorts, pants, socks nested. Pocket with a lolly stick broken in three place and two seashells, not from the same creature. It smells of your outdoors body. The evidence of slide tackles will need that pink stuff, so I rub it in with my finger. Later […]

Filed Under: 100 Words, 365, other things I have learned, review Tagged With: 100 words, childhood, laundry, life, parenting, prose poetry

A visit from my imaginary lover – 100 words

January 21, 2024 By Ellen

A visit from my imaginary lover They came to my house and I surprised myself by opening the door for them. They said ‘I see you’, and I said ‘I doubt it, your kind never do. And don’t think I’ll tidy up before we have tea’. We had tea sitting on hard seats because I […]

Filed Under: 100 Words, 365, other things I have learned, review Tagged With: 100 words, being seen, prose poetry, writing prompt

Another thing you can’t trust – 100 words

January 21, 2024 By Ellen

Another thing you can’t trust   They are only a generation from wolves, with blood on their teeth and head-back baying. Why would it stay when you tell it to? Instead, it’ll sit for a bit until a more interesting smell whistles shrill, from over there. And it will be gone. Not, of course, intending […]

Filed Under: 100 Words, 365, 365 photos, other things I have learned, review Tagged With: 100 words, dog, metaphor, prose poetry

In the sky – 100 words

January 12, 2024 By Ellen

In the sky Where I live clouds often rest on hills. It’s easy to walk into claggy evidence of sky. Clouds are in the sky, I am in cloud, so I am in the sky. There isn’t a line – like a children’s drawing – where sky begins. It starts above my boots, at the […]

Filed Under: 100 Words, 365, 365 photos, other things I have learned, review Tagged With: 100 words, prose poetry, sky, weather

Criminate – 100 words

January 11, 2024 By Ellen

Criminate Gender pay gap – maternity leave, child care, leaves office on the dot Gender sleep gap – gestational hip pain, night feeds, unruly concerns Gender glee gap – don’t wake baby, it’s a school night, mental load Gender dream gap – not this promotion, don’t be selfish, after they’ve left Gender love gap – […]

Filed Under: 100 Words, 365, 365 photos, other things I have learned, review Tagged With: 100 words, feminism, Gender Pay Gap, parenthood, prose poetry

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