rhythmic prose
— A child captures autumn's arrival through sound patterns, describing wool sweaters, breezy sneezes, chattering trees, and red leaves flooding streets like a stream.
— A sensory celebration of summer unfolds through repeated refrains of birdsong, ocean waves, flowers, and family gatherings.
— A kinetic poem follows a car journey across the Bishop Ford bridge, past landmarks and exits, building speed toward a hidden quarry pit.
— A cascade of philosophical questions triggered by Turner's painting 'The Banks of the Loire' spirals from consciousness to existence itself, returning to the painting's contemplative figure.
— A witch narrates her daily routine of potion-making, mushroom hunting, fortune-telling, and mirror-breaking, all told with playful rhyming couplets.
— A girl recounts a week on a farm where cats have the wrong names, adventures lead through tick-filled grass, and moments are too perfect for words.
— A gymnast describes the sensory experience of competition, from entering the arena through her floor routine, emphasizing drive over winning.
— A dog named Roo races through a yard in ecstatic motion, turning corners, leaping, and becoming pure joy before skidding to a stop.
— A young child's rhythmic plea to a new cat, asking it to be their companion and dubbing it 'The Tuna Cat' with playful repetition.
— A child's urgent poem captures the terror and escape from an erupting volcano, circling back to the image of the volcano at the center of everything.