Limning the Ordinary

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NovPAD 2024 | Day Two: Hometown

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Today, I’m sharing four versions of a poem created to the second prompt in a month of Poem-A-Day challenges—hometown.

It started as a prose poem and with each version, I trimmed it further, hoping to find the heart of the piece (not sure if I succeeded).

This weekend, I’ll post some backstory about the writing process of this poem (poems?) and why it was …

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