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The Everyday Muse

An Experiment in Poetry by Harry Lafnear

Written Poetry

These poems can also be heard in the audio programs.

Week 40

  • Oct. 01: "Surrendering September" (prose)
  • Oct. 02: "Vigil" (prose)
  • Oct. 03: "Following Theater" (prose)
  • Oct. 04: "Representing America" (prose)
  • Oct. 05: "Straightjacket" (prose)
  • Oct. 06: "A Poet's Wish" (prose)
  • Oct. 07: "Exploring Heaven" (prose)

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Week 39

  • Sep. 24: "De Troit" (prose)
  • Sep. 25: "The Seed of Substance" (prose)
  • Sep. 26: "Squashed" (prose)
  • Sep. 27: "Silver" (prose)
  • Sep. 28: "How Poetry Thinks" (prose)
  • Sep. 29: "Just One More" (prose)
  • Sep. 30: "Vestibule" (prose)

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Week 38

  • Sep. 17: "My Home on My Shoulders" (prose)
  • Sep. 18: "Notes on the Contributors" (prose)
  • Sep. 19: "The Day the World Changed" (prose)
  • Sep. 20: "Gathering Ghosts" (prose)
  • Sep. 21: "Flicker" (prose)
  • Sep. 22: "What's On?" (prose)
  • Sep. 23: "Back She Turns" (prose)

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Week 37

  • Sep. 10: "The Art of Numbers" (prose)
  • Sep. 11: "Dinner Belles" (prose)
  • Sep. 12: "The Backward Man" (prose)
  • Sep. 13: "Gray Dreams" (prose)
  • Sep. 14: "Catering to the Muse" (prose)
  • Sep. 15: "Epiphany" (prose)
  • Sep. 16: "Passing Between" (prose)

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Week 36

  • Sep. 03: "Lost Boys" (prose)
  • Sep. 04: "Questions for Saturday" (prose)
  • Sep. 05: "Frozen" (prose)
  • Sep. 06: "Walking Without Direction" (prose)
  • Sep. 07: "Kicking Myself" (prose)
  • Sep. 08: "Looking" (prose)
  • Sep. 09: "Like Breathing" (prose)

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Week 35

  • Aug. 27: "Letting Out" (prose)
  • Aug. 28: "Perigee" (prose)
  • Aug. 29: "Eggshells" (prose)
  • Aug. 30: "Bench" (prose)
  • Aug. 31: "Always Yes" (verse)
  • Sep. 01: "A Thinner Skin" (prose)
  • Sep. 02: "Column" (prose)

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Week 26

  • June 25: "Morning Bloom" (prose)
  • June 26: "Pillar" (prose)
  • June 27: "Left" (prose)
  • June 28: "Harvest" (prose)
  • June 29: "Exhibit" (prose)
  • June 30: "Curating Home" (prose)
  • July 01: "Half" (prose)

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Week 25

  • June 18: "P.A." (prose)
  • June 19: "Heartless" (prose)
  • June 20: "Long Days" (prose)
  • June 21: "Where Next?" (prose)
  • June 22: (none)
  • June 23: "Vacation" (prose)
  • June 24: "Nervous Wreck" (prose)

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Week 24

  • June 11: "Table and Cage" (prose)
  • June 12: "A Pale Truck" (prose)
  • June 13: "The Tide" (verse)
  • June 14: "Pedestal" (prose)
  • June 15: "Green" (prose)
  • June 16: "Interruption" (prose)
  • June 17: "Against the Calm" (haiku)

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Week 23

  • June 04: "Shrouded" (prose)
  • June 05: "Center" (prose)
  • June 06: "Virtuosity" (prose)
  • June 07: "Return" (prose)
  • June 08: "Flash Bang" (prose)
  • June 09: "RSVP" (prose)
  • June 10: "Root and Stem" (prose)

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Week 22

  • May 28: "Undertow" (prose)
  • May 29: "Fire and Ice" (prose)
  • May 30: "To Do" (prose)
  • May 31: "Undressed" (prose/exercise)
  • May 31: "Aftermath" (prose/exercise)
  • May 31: "Saturday" (prose/exercise)
  • June 01: "First Hunger" (prose/exercise)
  • June 01: "Orange" (prose/exercise)
  • June 01: "The Whisper of Wolves" (prose/exercise)
  • June 02: "Quarter Moon" (prose/exercise)
  • June 02: "Twice Lost" (prose/exercise)
  • June 03: "38 Stairs" (prose)

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Week 21

  • May 21: "November" (prose/exercise)
  • May 22: "The Lion on the Bus" (prose)
  • May 23: "Summer Windows" (prose)
  • May 24: "Return to Zero" (prose)
  • May 25: "Opportunity for a Poem" (prose)
  • May 26: "The Drift" (prose)
  • May 27: "Post-Moving Syndrome" (prose)

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Week 20

  • May 14: "Haggard's Shore" (verse)
  • May 15: "Right Out of the Box" (prose)
  • May 16: "Give Me Trials" (verse)
  • May 17: "B-A-Y C-I-T-Y L-U-V" (prose)
  • May 18: "The Sparrow Waits" (prose)
  • May 19: "Left, Right, and Turn" (prose)
  • May 20: "The Reef of Drums" (prose)

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Week 19

  • May 07: (none)
  • May 08: "Losing My Pen" (prose)
  • May 09: "Eleven Fifty-Nine" (verse)
  • May 10: "Amateur Night" (prose)
  • May 11: "Odometer" (prose)
  • May 12: "Marathon" (prose)
  • May 13: "The Best Laid Floor Plans" (prose)

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Week 18

  • Apr. 30: "Through 2500" (prose/exercise)
  • May 01: "The Box" (prose/exercises)
  • May 02: "Meander" (verse)
  • May 03: "Mirage" (prose)
  • May 04: "Burying Paradise" (prose)
  • May 05: "Dismantled" (prose)
  • May 06: "Dreaming of Each Other" (prose)

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Week 17

  • Apr. 23: "Rain Dance" (prose)
  • Apr. 24: "Broken Cord" (prose)
  • Apr. 25: "The Branch" (prose)
  • Apr. 26: "Fundamentally Nothing" (prose)
  • Apr. 27: "Dogwood" (haiku)
  • Apr. 27: "Dogwood II" (prose)
  • Apr. 28: "Two Cents" (prose)
  • Apr. 29: "High Sierra" (prose)

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Week 16

  • Apr. 16: "Writing at Night" (prose)
  • Apr. 17: "In Lieu of Sleep" (prose)
  • Apr. 18: "Not I" (prose)
  • Apr. 19: "Dry" (prose)
  • Apr. 20: "Prone" (prose/humor)
  • Apr. 21: "Called to Rise" (prose)
  • Apr. 22: "Why She Comes" (prose)

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Week 15

  • Apr. 09: "Changes of Scenery" (prose exercise)
  • Apr. 10: "Office" (prose)
  • Apr. 11: "Hiding From Harry" (prose/humor)
  • Apr. 12: "Eavesdropping" (prose/humor)
  • Apr. 13: "Stains" (prose)
  • Apr. 14: "Purpleclip" (prose/humor)
  • Apr. 15: "Mew!" (prose/humor)

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Week 14

  • Apr. 02: "Examination" (prose)
  • Apr. 03: "Rain With Benefits" (prose)
  • Apr. 04: "There I Will Shine" (prose)
  • Apr. 05: "Cloud Study" (prose)
  • Apr. 06: "Last Rights and Wrongs" (prose)
  • Apr. 07: "Always a Valley" (prose)
  • Apr. 08: "Shoreline Diner" (prose)

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Week 13

  • Mar. 26: "Spring and Fall" (prose exercise)
  • Mar. 27: "Late" (prose)
  • Mar. 28: "The Other Seasons" (prose)
  • Mar. 29: "Sitting Up" (prose)
  • Mar. 30: "Ninety-Two Dots" (prose)
  • Mar. 31: "Wake Them" (prose)
  • Apr. 01: "Splash" (prose)

Week 12: Curtain

  • Mar. 19: "The Vandal" (prose)
  • Mar. 20: "Whispering to Myself" (prose)
  • Mar. 21: "The Battle for the Terrarium" (experimental)
  • Mar. 22: "The Jungles of the Moon" (prose)
  • Mar. 23: "Sunday Afternoon" (prose)
  • Mar. 24: "Eloquent" (prose)
  • Mar. 25: "The Giant's Passing" (prose)

Week 11: Cages

  • Mar. 12: "E-mail from Teresa" (prose)
  • Mar. 13: "Footsteps at Midnight" (prose)
  • Mar. 14: "I Do" (prose)
  • Mar. 15: "Hiding on the Hill" (prose)
  • Mar. 16: "Just Nothing" (prose) *Mild adult language
  • Mar. 17: "Shell Game" (prose)
  • Mar. 18: "The Interest of a Breath" (prose)

Week 10: X

  • Mar. 05: "The Bitter Quill" (verse)
  • Mar. 06: "Joining the Stars" (prose)
  • Mar. 07: "Eastridge" (prose)
  • Mar. 08: "X" (verse)
  • Mar. 09: "Bosco" (haiku)
  • Mar. 10: "Mettle" (prose)
  • Mar. 11: "Sailing Past He" (prose)

Week 9: List

  • Feb. 26: "The Sect of the Flame" (prose)
  • Feb. 27: "Forming the Moon" (verse)
  • Feb. 28: "Legion" (prose)
  • Mar. 01: "Wicked" (verse)
  • Mar. 02: "The Long, Long Road" (prose)
  • Mar. 03: "Taller" (prose)
  • Mar. 04: "Sabbatical" (prose)

Week 8: Pressed

  • Feb. 19: "The Second Path" (prose)
  • Feb. 20: "Parking Lot High" (prose)
  • Feb. 21: "Utopia Myopia" (prose)
  • Feb. 22: "Unknown" (prose)
  • Feb. 23: "Braving the Rain" (prose)
  • Feb. 24: "Poking Roget" (prose)
  • Feb. 25: "Unjustified" (prose)

Week 7: Fugue

  • Feb. 12: "Wake Up Call" (prose)
  • Feb. 13: "And Seeing the Pin" (prose)
  • Feb. 14: "Cell Phone" (prose)
  • Feb. 15: "The Matter of the Cat" (prose)
  • Feb. 16: "Aunt Nora's Gift to Poetry" (prose/humor)
  • Feb. 17: "The Biography of the Box" (prose)
  • Feb. 18: "Lake Mead" (prose)

Week 6: Schism

  • Feb. 05: "What Big Teeth" (verse)
  • Feb. 06: "Doodle" (prose)
  • Feb. 07: "Their Guise of Innocence" (verse - late)
  • Feb. 08: "Disclaimer" (slam prose) *Adult Language
  • Feb. 09: "Fickle Moon" (prose)
  • Feb. 10: "The Second World" (prose)
  • Feb. 11: "The Ocean Door" (prose)

Week 5: Half Alive

  • Jan. 29: "72 Hours" (prose)
  • Jan. 30: "48 Hours" (prose)
  • Jan. 31: "24 Hours" (prose)
  • Feb. 01: "Anticipating Spring" (prose)
  • Feb. 02: "Anticipating Spring II" (prose)
  • Feb. 03: "Break" (prose)
  • Feb. 04: "An Early Roar" (prose)

Week 4: A Leap

  • Jan. 22: "Waiting" (prose)
  • Jan. 23: "A Subtle Line" (prose)
  • Jan. 24: "How It Is Done" (prose)
  • Jan. 25: "The Muse's Bait" (prose)
  • Jan. 26: "San Joaquin" (prose)
  • Jan. 27: "The World of Tomorrow, Today" (prose)
  • Jan. 28: "What Remains" (prose)

Week 3: A Skip

  • Jan. 15: "Little Bites" (prose)
  • Jan. 16: "Lost at Sea" (poem)
  • Jan. 17: "Grandma Alice" (prose)
  • Jan. 18: "What the Critics Would Say" (prose/humor)
  • Jan. 19: "Sushi" (prose)
  • Jan. 20: "One Side Rises" (prose)
  • Jan. 21: "Long Weekend" (poem)

Week 2: A Step

  • Jan. 08: "The Invention of You" (poem/humor)
  • Jan. 09: "Between Lives" (prose)
  • Jan. 10: "Why We Eat Them Raw" (prose)
  • Jan. 11: "Brief, Our Joy" (prose)
  • Jan. 12: "Ode to My Elbow" (prose)
  • Jan. 12: "Feeling Compelled" (ode)
  • Jan. 13: "Pulling Back" (prose)
  • Jan. 14: "That Time" (prose)

Week 1: Debut

  • Jan. 01: "Wildfire" (prose)
  • Jan. 02: "How Was Your Day?" (prose)
  • Jan. 02: "Fallacy" (dark poem)
  • Jan. 03: "Bonsai" (prose)
  • Jan. 04: "Breath" (prose)
  • Jan. 05: "A Block of Nothing" (poem/humor)
  • Jan. 06: "As Apple, So Star" (prose)
  • Jan. 07: "Saving the Day" (prose)

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