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Welcome to The Whirligig, a place for you and your muse to find inspiration. Each Wednesday I will post 12 words with which you may create a poem, a short story, or some other piece of writing. Use the words in any form, as many (or as few) of them as you wish.

You will be able to link your writing to this site anytime, for the link never expires.

If you'd like to contribute 12 words, please e-mail them to me: [email protected]

THIS WEEK'S WORDS come from "Bobolink" by Didi Jackson: flowers, grasses, wings, yellow, brown, stained, braided, waited, worried, lift, take, strips

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Welcome to The Whirligig, a place for you and your muse to find inspiration. Each Wednesday I will post 12 words with which you may create a poem, a short story, or some other piece of writing. Use the words in any form, as many (or as few) of them as you wish.

You will be able to link your writing to this site anytime, for the link never expires.

If you'd like to contribute 12 words, please e-mail them to me: [email protected]

THIS WEEK'S WORDS come from "Farm Sonnet" by Kitty Carpenter: barn, back, bank, stacked, steep, slipped, trudged, time, tirelessly, cold, crack, comes

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Welcome to The Whirligig, a place for you and your muse to find inspiration. Each Wednesday I will post 12 words with which you may create a poem, a short story, or some other piece of writing. Use the words in any form, as many (or as few) of them as you wish.

You will be able to link your writing to this site anytime, for the link never expires.

If you'd like to contribute 12 words, please e-mail them to me: [email protected]

THIS WEEK'S WORDS come from "Places I Have Heard the Ocean" by Faith Shearin: throat, shell, hold, blood, beach, bed, carries, current, cat, rise, fall, everyone

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Welcome to The Whirligig, a place for you and your muse to find inspiration. Each Wednesday I will post 12 words with which you may create a poem, a short story, or some other piece of writing. Use the words in any form, as many (or as few) of them as you wish.

You will be able to link your writing to this site anytime, for the link never expires.

If you'd like to contribute 12 words, please e-mail them to me: [email protected]

THIS WEEK'S WORDS come from "When Love" by Alicia Ostriker: love, cuts, canyon, silt, revealed, layers, granite, washes, away, essential, carrying, floods