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Night thoughts: I ought to be sleeping but I'm not,

Worries, creeping in, about the responsibilities I've got

for #nwp prompt (poem about teaching without mentioning teaching)

Some walls bear the weight of rebel art

the scrabbled lines and faded colors of dreamers

mixing paint and ink with cement and brick

here, a crooked object, a jagged entry; There, a crazy sign

Run your fingers along the rough, where beautiful fades into time

inspired by #nwp Write Across America (Eastern Michigan Writing project; Ypsilanti downtown art walk) https://uploads.knightlab.com/storymapjs/10d74052673e8b17fd948b5dc5dcabdf/emwp-write-across-america-2021-storymap/index.html

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1YaAaUGSV-Zg_8BOZpi3qYWnzgE00LLgoTTmCn5SCH8k/edit#slide=id.p

Zig zag tracks pull you up, then drop you back, where

East breathes the Atlantic, and West, the Pacific

these oceans always beyond a point of view

Settle yourself upon the arch of the middle,

resting a gaze above and beyond the Mississippi

— inspired by #nwp Write Across America and the Prairie Lands Writing Project (Gateway Arch)

In a corner of the archives of the National Museum of Toys,

the kids who've come to play today ignore the signs (for girls as well as boys)

Instead, they tinker into the quiet of the collection, turning play to joyful noise

— from #nwp Write Across America, Prairie Lands Writing Project (Missouri)

https://uploads.knightlab.com/storymapjs/b7e7445be68f9f2286b804503877311e/prairie-lands-writing-project-waa/index.html

... I could play a thing I'd been hearing. It came alive. – Charlie Parker

A jazz sculptor – like this - takes an intricate idea – like that - plays a melodic riff – like this - makes the air dance – like that - sends the vibration – like that - sound to your ear – like this - something you feel – like that - something you hear – like this

— inspired by #nwp Write Across America, via Prairie Lands Writing Project, Missouri and American Jazz Museum

https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/american-jazz-museum

Roll out, friends, and let us revel in the movement of the moment of togetherness

all of us holding hands as we travel in tandem between the narrow span of city and the sea

— inspired by #nwp Write Across America, via University of California Irvine Writing Project

Lining wooden rails wandering protected trails of twisting winding paths, to there, we walk, then back

Our quiet cameras click to call at seabirds, rising, then fall back where ocean meets earth; this sanctuary's rebirth

— inspired by #nwp Write Across America, via University of California Irvine Writing Project

Panic doesn't come until we notice the fading sun

this mountain path we're on is a different one

than the one we wanted to find ourselves on

backtrack 'til dark, find the place in this story where we first started from

— inspired by #nwp Write Across America, via University of California Irvine Writing Project

I see another wave being born ... – Paul M Chafer, from “Surfing”

It's hard to know if you ever see the exact moment when a wave grows -

we only ride reverberations afterwards -

as the tide pulls in, out we go

— inspired by #nwp Write Across America, via University of California Irvine Writing Project

https://uploads.knightlab.com/storymapjs/84a5c82fef8ffbce19322f6b91aef301/write-across-irvine-california/index.html

Poem by Paul M Chafer entitled “Surfing” https://hellopoetry.com/poem/970596/surfing/

It is the map I follow back to understand what shaped me ... — from Kim Barnes, via In the Wilderness: Coming Of Age In Unknown Country

Torn corners crayoned lines lingered places: (this) paper's kind

Kindred colors crooked roads ragged memory: (this) map, unfolds

— inspired by #nwp Write Across America via Idaho Writing Project