"Unwind My Riddle," by Stephen Crane

"The Rainy Day," by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Poetry-Prompt: Writing a "Thing-Poem"

"The League of Quiet Persons (Mum Is the Word)," by Hans Ostrom

"Song for Billie Holiday," by Langston Hughes

It is Billie Holiday's birthday today.

"The Witch," by W.B. Yeats

"Gothic Fog," by Hans Ostrom

"Between Two Worlds," by Lord Byron

Canto XV, Stanza 99, of Don Juan:

"It Will Not Change," by Sara Teasdale

"She's Checking," by Hans Ostrom

in the Parkway Tavern, Tacoma,
i'd been drinking lemonade
for a half-hour or so.

a different waitress
came to the table. i
wondered if waitresses
and waiters like
to be called servers
now or not. i kept
this question to myself.

anyway, she said,
"what are you drinking?"
i said, "lemonade."
she said, "we don't have
lemonade." i said,
"i have been drinking
lemonade." she said,
"well, i'll check."



hans ostrom

"I Saw a Man Pursuing the Horizon," by Stephen Crane

"The Poet Speaks," by Georgia Douglas Johnson

"Death and Life," by Robert W. Service