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Day 21: more wordplay
Health Madlib Poem. This challenge was a little different, requiring me to play some more with words, with parts of speech. I simply visited Language is a Virus and entered random nouns, verbs, adverbs, and adjectives. Here’s what it generated, in the style of e.e.cummings: pink density’s pink density sadly i have never questioned, betrayed beyond the pink ribbon, such promises have their price: in your most public displays are things which offend me, or which i cannot detect because they are too hidden your innocent unfurling at last will undo me though i have deceived myself as delivered, you deliver always denial by denial myself as lies conceal (duping defiantly,…
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Day 19: dying to have dinner with you.
5 Dinner Guests. Who are 5 people you’d love to have dinner with (living or deceased) and why? If wishes came true, I wrote in Communing with the Dead, I would ask for just one more conversation with someone who is no longer with us, with a handful of women who would have something to say – my grandmother, Princess Diana, Susan G. Komen, Rachel Carson, and Janis Joplin. I am intrigued by the thought of this eclectic group of women around my table weighing in on the news of the day. What would my grandmother make of Arizona’s immigration policies, I wonder. I would plan for her to arrive early…
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Day 18: wordplay
Open Book. open the nearest book (or find your favorite and open that!) to a random page and point to a word or phrase on that page. Using that phrase or word as your inspiration, free-write for 20 minutes – to be sure, set a timer and see what you’ve come up with. Free-write on a Favorite Poet. Once again scanning the shelves of my bookcase for one of my favorite books, I spy nestled between Seamus Heaney’s Preoccupations and W.P. Kinsella’s Shoeless Joe, the short off-white spine of a little book I last picked up in 1999: Fooling with Words: A Celebration of Poets and Their Craft In keeping…
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Day 16: Picture this
Day 16 of the WEGO Health Activist Writer’s Month Challenge requires me to choose three pictures for my Pinterest board that best represent my health condition. I wish it were so, but I cannot separate from breast cancer its pinkness, hence the horribly pink noise of the first image. The second represents my adventure in social media. The breast cancer diagnosis launched me into another reality, where soon I learned of what lurked behind the pink ribbons and the races. Social media has connected me to others who are clamoring for a change in the conversation about breast cancer. It is changing my life in myriad ways while still I proceed the only way…
