Why I am Doing NaNoWriMo the Month After My Father Died
(inspired by Susan Browne's "The Use of Poetry" and "Why I Bought an Inflatable Hot Tub from Walmart on Black Friday During a Pandemic" by Anne Panning)
Because my father taught me to dream big. Because when we walked by the boats near the San Francisco Marina, he would tell me one of them would be mine someday. Because I decided when I had a boat, I'd call it Starr, after Shirley Temple's character in Captain January. Because he taught me how to find a first edition. Because he taught me to notice thin…
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