January “A River of Stones” Poetry Tweets Wrap-Up @JadeBlackwater

Last month I participated in A River of Stones (#aros) writing challenge. I heard about #aros just before the New Year via the venerable Crafty Green Poet, Juliet Wilson.

The #aros project is curated by UK writer/artist Fiona Robyn and her partner Kaspa. Their invitation to writers begged daily tokens of small stones, which they define as “polished moment[s] of paying proper attention.”

I enjoyed this daily meditation not only as a part of my journaling routine, but also for the pleasures of hopping in the stream, splashing around with a few fellow writers, and listening to #aros flow.

UPDATE March 3, 2011: You can now purchase a book of selections from the January 2011 #aros project, in which my contribution “slender moon […]” appears: pay attention: a river of stones.

Below is the tributary of small stones I shared via micropoetry tweets @JadeBlackwater throughout January 2011. Hashtags have been retained to show the texture of the day when each stone was palmed. Line breaks have been restored where ‘ / ‘ was used in the feed.

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6:45 AM, Dec 31st

pre-dawn

morning star

preceding

even

old moon

#beforedawn

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6:46 AM, Dec 31st

a shimmering

bulb

in the blackness

alders

shiver

in silence

#beforedawn

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6:46 AM, Dec 31st

I shade my

eyes

look

south

still no

moonlight

#beforedawn

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6:46 AM, Dec 31st

but wait!

a tree-line

twinkle

a sliver

of late flame

#beforedawn

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8:33 AM, Jan 1st

range

hood

fan and glow

dusty blue

new

year dawn blooms

#beforedawn

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1:22 PM, Jan 1st

now

the pink

announcement

now

the brown

darting blink

#beforedawn

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7:48 AM, Jan 2nd

settled cold

quiets

coffee

steams over

waiting

correspondences

mercurial gems

#beforedawn

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2:37pm, Jan 2nd

late light

low white

catkins waggle

tides of birds

pluck, repluck

#lowwintersun

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7:48 AM, Jan 3rd

forest

dons the morning

shawl

crocheted

of frosted

breath;

too icy

for my

unwooled

skin

#beforedawn

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6:32 AM, Jan 4th

burn ban in #kitsap

I pine for my stove

bundled in the dark

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3:56 PM, Jan 5th

praise for overcast

skies! greys, sweet eye-balm

slathering quiet

#lowwintersun

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11:43 AM, Jan 6th

flash of black

alighting raven

breaks concentration

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10:23 AM, Jan 8th

great blue heron glides

afore the windshield

six fixed eyes follow

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5:17 PM, Jan 9th

slender moon

suspended

between power lines

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8:40 AM, Jan 10th

morning news

felicitations

rock on sis!

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10:40 AM, Jan 10th

hilltop snow

sunrise sleet

rooster crows

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6:47 AM, Jan 11th

dreams defrost

crackling and snapping

icy stars

#beforedawn

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2:46 PM, Jan 12th

iced streets slush

in morning hush grey

ribbons wring across foothills

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12:28 PM, Jan 13th

soft forgotten words

practiced syllables

tonguing memory

ichi ni san shi

go back through the draft

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7:17 AM, Jan 14th

rain rattle

shake the world awake

drip tempo

#beforedawn

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1:00 PM, Jan 14th

hemlocks hurl, howl, sway

scrub and brush awash

with windy dewlight

#windstorm #powerout #kitsap

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4:56 PM, Jan 17th

“Now rose-pink!” cries the painter

“now mountain cobalt-white!

now scoop away all color

make room for coal-dark night.”

#dusk

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6:02 PM, Jan 17th

beckoning sketchbook

cedar fingertips

skritch-skritch-shadashad

#afterdark

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8:35 PM, Jan 18th

glowing yawn

chilled shadow

full tremble

#fullmoon

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7:06 AM, Jan 19th

lunar mischief lingers on

morning breath exhalations

smoke detector reveille

#beforedawn

#wellnowiamawake

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2:42 PM, Jan 25th

red alder

your swelling catkins

in first blush

#lowwintersun

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5:12 AM, Jan 28th

morning wind

chimes a new system

brisk star chants

#beforedawn

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5:16 AM, Jan28th

roof spine crack

early notebook ink

stray door draft

#beforedawn

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8:06 AM, Jan 31st

dawn blossom

sweet low hanging fog

rose-colored grasses

#sunrise