It is the 17th of december 2025, and I’m finally doing a summary of my monthly challenges for september, october, and november. For each of these months, I didn’t really have a monthly challenge. Instead, I worked on the full manuscript for my book, which was originally titled, Haunts, then Girl Ghost Gorge, then Echo // location, then Echolocate | | Echolocated. Fun!
- writing about returning to the gorge, almost daily: “This habit is a ritual is a ceremony, happening almost daily, that when performed brings a new world in which I am still able to see, but strangely, into existence” (2 nov)
- what are cells?,, how often are cells replaced?, the cells that are never replaced: in the lens (3 nov)
- more cell poems and the illusion of continuity + possible book to buy (4 nov)
- bells and making ED’s lines the opening and Annie Dillard’s the ending (5 nov)
- cells and 43% human / 57% bacteria, viruses, fungi and me as an ecosystem (6 nov)
- poetry at the cellular level (7 nov)
- the history of the cell, a story retold (cell) while others forgotten unremembered (replaced cells), Robin Wall Kimmerer and indigenous knowledge and western science, the origins of the idea of the cell (8 nov)
- cells remember (10 nov)
- riprap (12 nov)
- scissor scepter cutting prow (17 nov)
- eureka: the idea of echolocation came to me while looking at a special call for submissions (18 nov)
- learning to echolocation, listening for doorways and other open spaces (19 nov)
- poet’s clock: this big rock (22 nov)
- “seeing” with your ears / ears are the eyes on the side of your head (24 nov)
- trinities — rock/river/air — girl/ghost/gorge – I/you/we or us — grandfather/mother/daughter — locater/located/echo | changing the name of form fitters to “breathing with:” (25 nov)