Kate Gardner published:
PROMPT: Writing Resolutions
1) As a writer I hope to finish my manuscript, and start my second book.
2) I want to craft better action, and incorporate it seamlessly into my dialogue.
24 days ago
Kate Gardner published:
PROMPT: Mixtape
In no particular order
1) A Proper Polish Welcome-Torres
Allow me to clarify with this one that I am not polish. I chose this song for its moody intersection of oceanic imagery with descriptions of a wlw relationship.
2) June- Florence and the Machine
It makes me want to run away, find a city, something, anything.
3) Youth- Glass Animals
4) Mother-Tori Amos
This song is november, the bite of the air. It sounds...
2 months ago
Kate Gardner published:
PROMPT: Extraordinary in the Ordinary
I am a child of mundanity, the bruised fruit
picked at the tail of autumn,
cortland apples, my grandfather
cut down a brace of trees
he has renal failure. The trees were not dead
they only had ceased to bear fruit,
their only crime, that they were no longer useful
who will serve me, when purpose is not
the purpose that I serve, when I am bruised fruit gone soft
3 months ago
Kate Gardner published:
PROMPT: Novel Writing Competition 2018
3 months ago
Kate Gardner published:
PROMPT: Why I Write
I write because the words
already live inside me
scrambling
to
escape
4 months ago
Kate Gardner published:
PROMPT: Your World in Three Senses
have you ever thought about
how you are aware of your limbs
of where they are in space
even when you can't see them
I rest my hands on the bark of a dying
maple, his body insect hollowed
I hope my warmth lingers, a comfort,
as I try to plug up the holes in his body
beneath bark and lichen both
(if I disregard the interlopers)
he is smooth
I have a secret, I am fallible,
an animal still, I...
4 months ago
Kate Gardner published:
PROMPT: Unconventional
in spite of
the desperation of
your written word, you have nothing
to say
to me.
.
for the first time in my life I
make no motion
to fill these empty minutes
I listen to your silence,
and
.
.
.
.
.
I make you end the call
5 months ago
Kate Gardner published:
PROMPT: Impermanence
does august see me?
as I hide beneath trees, first
from heat, now from rain
6 months ago