http://slow.writerscafe.org/millsj The original writings of author j.a. mills en-us Copyright 2026 WritersCafe.org 1776041475 WritersCafe.org RSS Generator 15 Another poem like "Love Less" which I wrote after a very bad accident that almost cost me my sister. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/millsj/1873637/ I've never done a poem (until now) that messes as much as this one does with lines. I'm not sure if this has a name, but if it does let me know. Again, totally experimental, but very fun. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/millsj/1873636/ I believe this poem was inspired by a dream. In any event, it was written four or five years ago, inspired, as will become abundantly clear to you, by a street lamp. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/millsj/1873631/ This is another perspective-taking poem, this time of a homeless man I saw briefly in Center City Philadelphia. I wrote this on my phone as my father drove. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/millsj/1873630/ This is an ekphrastic piece based on Matisse's "Conversation". It is designed to be read line for line, but also tells interesting stories if you read only the italicized lines or standard type lines. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/millsj/1873628/ A poem about the power of a first encounter, told in parts, some of which is from the personified perspective of a woman's left and right hands, as well as her cell phone. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/millsj/1873614/ Daedelus, father of Icarus, retells and relives the loss of his son through this Amaranth http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/millsj/1873595/ This is a villanelle focusing on the perspective of a disgruntled father, fed up with his son's laziness and pettiness. (I forgot how hard these are, so forgive me if it's not great) http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/millsj/1873591/ This is another experimental piece. I am trying to write from different perspective, and this one comes to you from the mind of a large-hearted third grader, who is fascinated by science. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/millsj/1873585/ This is the same story told in "Decided" but reworked and told, now, from the second person. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/millsj/1873025/ This is the story of a failed suicide attempt told from the first person. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/millsj/1873024/ This Narrative Essay examines the unique relationships we have with childhood keepsakes, and how these relationships change overtime. This essay encourages readers to value and protect them. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/millsj/1873012/ This is a Narrative Essay focused on the malleability of our earliest memories, and suggests readers to examine those memories and the effects they have had on their character and actions. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/millsj/1873009/ This is a short story that examines hereditary baldness at a young age. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/millsj/1873007/ This poem is intended to read as a short story, but I felt it looked best-at least for now-in stanzas. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/millsj/1832140/ This is a poem about a chair my family used to own, of which I as an infant was quite fond. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/millsj/1832133/ This is an experiment with form. The piece is a rumination on love's redefinitions as we mature and experience love in different ways. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/millsj/1831112/ This poem was written after the loss of my paternal grandmother. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/millsj/1831106/ This poem encompasses the struggle of a wife to comprehend and cope with a husband now enfeebled by age and the onset of dementia, as well as the husband's own struggle to connect to his wife. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/millsj/1831103/