watching a fat cat pull itself through a tiny space.

our feet tucked in socks and winter boots slipping on rocks algae covered and eroded the smooth surfaces, no edges, left nothing to g...

one cannot trust the sun as bright and beautiful as she shines to look upon her is to turn your eyes into liquid gold burnt forever ...

in the dream i was brave enough and strong enough to hold him down but when i woke i could not even reach him

a funny little brown book wrapped shut with leather twine the same color as the book and on every page is just one word. the secr...

the mess of stitches that make the matador's costume so elegant in appearance  the gold and the teal fitted tightly powerful a...

the groceries were stored away in cupboards and containers decaffeinated sodas in cans littering the small table alongside empty plates w...

this is not one of those stories about Harriet, whom everyone knows.  rather, here is the story, the mystery, if you will, of how a Welshman...

the mudroom became a sea of flowers spanning the color spectrum and just as the delivery truck left, a small brown rabbit appeared fol...

that look across the lobby of a gaudy hotel on par with the grand Budapest big and open and yet reeking of the same stuffy stench as...

she doesn't want to do anything today. and no one else does either.

if her eyes were the same color as yours would you trust her more or less? because you know all the things your eyes have seen. would...

i have a few days off.  off from one of three jobs, anyway.  so as far as i see it, i have 35 hours to myself.  in that time i have a few ob...

the leather bound he writes one page every day for the rest of his life the story of his desires his secrets and regrets buried w...

today i felt the whispers of september dying leaves skipping across cracked new england pavement when my back was turned and the noise...

although silent.  still writing.  although silent. 

short on butter again, the scone sat unfinished on her plate.  a wounded monk in the crossfire of desire and reality.  she sat pouting, st...

I am sad today.  I have a reason to be.  But I also have a lot of reasons not to be sad... One Ryan - my amazing and wonderful husband an...

mercy grows in the dessert between the grains of sand too small to see with even a microscope mercy grows in between the cracks and ...

http://www.artisticmoods.com/art-print-by-lieke-van-der-vorst/ please don't be so sad. we are all the same. we fix our selves agai...

betty sat, legs dangling over the edge of the dock, as she consumed her second ice cream. she watched her friends diving into the sea. th...

stretch st re t ch s t re t c h s t r e t c h s  t  r  e  t  c  h br eath br e a th breath br e a th br eath s  t  r  e  t  c  h...

Oulipost Exit Interview: Oulipost Ends Where the Work Begins Question 1: What happened during Oulipost that you didn't expect? What a...

the market stretches out for miles. actual miles.  you read it in the brochure. all manner of produce and local fare.  and girls in high ...

from the back of the plane it was all i could do to keep my breath from escaping, from leaping out of my chest through my lips and away from...

we don't talk about fashion because we're victims of it, we talk about fashion because it gives us power. we wear steel cages aro...

"stop saying 'orange'" he said as they walked home after lunch "stop complaining" she said back "if you...

transmitted through the air transmitted by direct contaminated Airborne absolutely clear viruses by sunlight,   disinfectants ...

the stairs creak wildly under foot of even the tiniest beast and the sounds seem louder in the dark of night than it does under sunlight...

he only weighs seven pounds, but the mass of his purr lifts my mood no matter how heavy the burdens of the day's trials resting on my...

it would have been a Tuesday by the calendar created at the start. the sun collapsed against the horizon in a hundred different strands ...

your hair is a mess, big and brown, ruffled against a night of vibrant dreams, running and jumping and falling freely through miles of un...

the flannel is worn away at the elbows on the shirt you've worn for 14 years. it smells just like you, even after a wash.  soft as s...

the thump thump thump my heart, when the lights go out   it starts with heavy sounds like thunder and earthquakes   ...

the sun was peaking in through the gap in the blinds.  he needed to go back to the hardware store to get the correct sizes.  moving in was...

what comes to mind first when you say "did you see that thing on the news?" is that the mass of all the termites on earth outw...

From the Curator of DrabDayMoMay ... " Dear Drabblers, You've heard the old saying "April showers bring May flowers"? ...

April is over.  Get ready for lots of drabbles!  (Nicole provided word prompts this year, so there may be fewer cat poems than the last two ...

Prompt: Conclude the project by writing a poem that incorporates words and lines from all of your past 29 poems. source: http://som...

Prompt: The name of this procedure is taken from the soft drink marketed as “the champagne of ginger ales.” The drink may have bubbles, but ...

Prompt: A text in which each word has one letter less than the preceding one, and the last word only one letter. From your newspaper, select...

Prompt:  Create a 14-line sonnet sourced from lines from your newspaper that is divided according to the first five digits of the irrational...

Jack is helping me catch up on my Oulipost poetry. 

Prompt: Aka “line stretching.” From your newspaper text, pick two sentences. Add a new sentence between the first two; then two sentences in...

Prompt: Homosyntaxism is a method of translation that preserves only the syntactic order of the original words. To give a rudimentary exampl...

Prompt: Inventory is a method of analysis and classification that consists of isolating and listing the vocabulary of a pre-existing work ac...

Prompt: In Oulipian usage, antonymy means the replacement of a designated element by its opposite. Each word is replaced by its opposite, wh...

Prompt: Craft a conversation poem using “he said/she said” quotes that you find in newspaper articles. sources: http://www.capecodtoday...

Prompt: Select a newspaper article or passage from a newspaper article as your source text. Switch the first noun with the second noun, the ...

Prompt: This will be one of your most challenging Oulipost prompts! A sestina is a poetic form of six six-line stanzas. The end-words of the...

Prompt: Choose a sentence or short passage from your newspaper to complete a homoconsonantism. In this form, the sequence of consonants in a...

prompt: The haiku is a Japanese poetic form whose most obvious feature is the division of its 17 syllables into lines of 5, 7 and 5 syllable...

prompt: The chimera of Homeric legend – lion’s head, goat’s body, treacherous serpent’s tail – has a less forbidding Oulipian counterpart. I...

Prompt: Imagine a prisoner whose supply of paper is restricted. To put it to fullest use, he will maximize his space by avoiding any letter ...

prompt: Refer to the advertising section or the classifieds in your source newspaper. Create a poem by replacing all of the nouns in your ch...

Prompt: An Oulipian epithalamium, or marriage song, is one composed exclusively with the letters of the names of bride and groom (bride and ...

Prompt: Write a sonnet sourced from lines found in newspaper articles. You may choose your own sonnet type ( Examples here ) and should feel...

Prompt: This procedure requires the first word of a text to have only one letter, the second two, the third three, and so on as far as resou...

Prompt: A univocalic text is one written with a single vowel. It is consequently a lipogram in all the other vowels. If he had been univocal...

Prompt: Compose a poem whose body is sourced from article headlines in your newspaper. Source: http://www.newscientist.com/ and http...

Prompt: Select a name from one of your newspaper articles, famous or not. Compose a poem using only words that can be made from the letters...

Prompt: You’ll want a dictionary for this one! Select a passage from one of your newspaper articles. Replace each noun the passage with the ...

occasionally, i feel the need to reflect in order to feel better.  better... than... whatever i am right now.  not sad.  maybe, more, lonely...

Prompt: Compose a poem using unintentional lines of iambic pentameter found in your newspaper. tacos, ceviche and locally grown seafo...

Prompt: Compose a poem whose words — or at least the principal ones — all begin with the same letter. The words must be sourced from your ne...

Prompt: In a Fibonacci sequence, each term is the sum of the two terms immediately preceding it; typically with 1 as the first term: 1, 1, ...

Prompt: Select a single sentence from a newspaper article. Replace each meaningful word in the text [verb, noun, adjective, adverb] by its ...