http://slow.writerscafe.org/WordKnurd The original writings of author WordKnurd en-us Copyright 2026 WritersCafe.org 1775996803 WritersCafe.org RSS Generator 15 I decided to try my hand at a Haibun (a descriptive paragraph followed by a Haiku) because... well, why the hell not. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/WordKnurd/1832131/ With a branch drawn from the fireYou write your name upon my skin.The charcoal words will fade with water,But the pink burns will remain. So when I walk into the riverI’ll sew the stones into my hem.You can write my sins on every pebbleBut rocks have no fle.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/WordKnurd/1831152/ It took three hundred years for scientists to arrange the periodic table into all those sturdy little columns.Now you’ve gone and fucked it all up.I guess that makes sense. After all,There on top of that nobly named cluster of atoms,Sits Helium.  He.Perc.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/WordKnurd/1829355/ Whenever I hear the buzz of the emergency alert system thereis something in me which wants it not to be a test.  I find myself craving the zombie plague, thesolar storms, or the blast when Yellowstone finally blows its top.  I daydream of a time when tax forms roll liketumbleweeds do.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/WordKnurd/1829339/ Sometimes evolution canwork backwards,paring supervirusesdown from mighty beingswith thousands of linesof DNA and their own foodsource, to a shell,who must rely on itshost to survive. Sometimes the littlethings hurt most.Like having my fingerpricked bef.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/WordKnurd/1829328/ This is a found poem of the Wikipedia article for Schrodinger's Cat. Enjoy! http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/WordKnurd/1829313/ I always getthe blame.When nationsfall and cities burntheyall leer at meas though Iheld the torch and lit it,gleefully. I’m not awoman.I’ma ratcreepingthrough streets, spreading plague.I creaseacross pale faces, swell their ag.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/WordKnurd/1829301/