Whirligig 455: Final Edition

For eight years The Whirligig has published a dozen words each week to inspire writers, but the time has come to close the wordshop. We wish you well in your writing endeavors in 2024 and beyond. Happy New Year, and productive writing!

THIS WEEK'S WORDS come from "Habitable Nebula" by Timothy Donnelly: shines, back, birth, stars, act, blur, habit, ignore, middle, turbulence, gravity, daisy

Whirligig 454

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 "Sheep in Winter" by John Clare: sheep, snow, gnaw, pecks, hedges, storm, stack, face, shun, hovel, warm, meal

Whirligig 453

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 "Solstice in Truro" by Joshua Weiner: term, done, laptop, chill, weak, migrant, door, feed, restless, grandfather, gathers, opens

Whirligig 452

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 "Funeral for Unreturned Ashes" by Travis Chi Wing Lau: smoke, time, flashpoints, mark, shared, impact, collide, cost, keep, remains, restless, sleep

Whirligig 451

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 "Corsair" by Cyrus Cassells and Brian Turner: remember, spool, whales, relinquish, white, treasure, map, discover, tangerine, dawn, ships, sheets

Whirligig 450

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 "Perhaps the World Ends Here" by Joy Harjo: kitchen, gifts, table, scrape, gossip, ghosts, laugh, umbrella, birth, pray, remorse, thanks

Whirligig 449

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 (11, for the poem is short!) come from "The Bluebird" by Alexander Posey: winged, bit, Indian, sky, strayed, hither, from, home, high, bluebird, its

Whirligig 448

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 "The Miracle of Giving" by D.A. Powell: bread, hands, fish, wine, enough, feed, hungered, round, human, pattern, tribute, division

Whirligig 447

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 "The Opposite of Abandonment" by Alexis Aceves Garcia: nostalgia, house, roses, father, threatened, between, grief, left, hospital, keep, circle, sorry

Whirligig 446

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 "Grow" by Ruth Ellen Kocher: broke, rub, shower, passage, pet, maybe, believes, happen, lilacs, rambling, abandon, rotten

Whirligig 445

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 "Another Night in the ICU" by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer: tenderly, blankets, checks, moves, wisp, midnight, rises, nest, place, danger, tracking, determined

Whirligig 444

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 "Let No Charitable Hope" by Elinor Wylie: confuse, eagle, nature, born, beset, stone, nourishment, austere, years, fear, escaped, smile

Whirligig 443

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 "Mujer Malvada" by Janel Pineda: waters, arms, brush, braid, myth, nails, blade, missing, body, took, safe, instead

Whirligig 442

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 "To Mars from Arizona" by Alberto Rios: mornings, possible, taking, speaking, bikes, horses, song, tired, plans, quietude, happen, catch

Whirligig 441

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 "Jurupa Hills/Riverside" by Aaron Boothby: urgent, tremulous, rippled, words, claim, refused, lemons, hibiscus, thistle, birds, complicates, weeds

Whirligig 440

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 "Afternoon in Andalusia" by Sahar Romani: faith, trust, wall, stars, flash, field, see, spinning, wheel, vines, future, alight

Whirligig 439

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 "Rooms by the Sea" by Lauren Aliza Green: apartment, stairwell, pills, wanted, lined, bowl, dance, rug, manner, bees, ocean, hold

Whirligig 438

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 "Two Photographs" by Theresa Lola: eyes, frowning, knots, selfie, bent, cracks, therapy, prayer, cup, space, firm, pebbles

Whirligig 437

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 "The Humming-Bird" by Beatrice Ravenel: tin, ring, twisted, print, melted, glass, darts, keen, spurt, shadow, dreams, whizz

Whirligig 436

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 "Survivor" by Geffrey Davis: backside, warm, recovery, soothing, glory, proverb, laughter, thin, waiting, weep, kneeling, light

Whirligig 435

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 "A Guy in a Black SUV" by William J. Harris: front, pretends, mutter, guy, mother, hesitation, slam, smash, wild, kick, crumble, fury

Whirligig 434

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 "Psalm 102" attributed to David: cry, come, trouble, answer, bones, hearth, withered, grass, bread, wilderness, weeping, reproach

Whirligig 433

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 "Country of Water" by Mahogany L. Browne: breath, choice, promise, bubbling, water, forgotten, rise, prayers, trap, beckons, pronounce, know

Whirligig 432

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 "A Funeral Ending with Beyoncé" by Karisma Price: finger, chest, die, casket, scent, imagine, bark, pocket, bread, jump, play, ground

Whirligig 431

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 "Take This Poem" by Elizabeth Willis: topsoil, raven, hair, shirt, unread, teacup, take, cause, burn, chamber, house, down

Whirligig 430

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 "Oak Skin" by Kris Ringman: wood, bark, oak, spins, pick, bruise, weeds, potions, walk, wishing, visit, keeps

Whirligig 429

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 "After the Farm was Sold to FedEx" by Carlie Hoffman: grandfather, porch, cloud, grace, kicking, move, primitive, drunk, dreamed, dish, hands, drop

Whirligig 428

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 "Boy Shooting at a Statue" by Billy Collins: afternoon, park, witness, cold, head, finger, rapid, circle, footprints, glass, birds, below

Whirligig 427

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 "Emptying" by Aaron Zhang: summer, edge, wave, branches, leaf, pretense, paper, soiled, bridge, ring, warble, echo

Whirligig 426

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 "in the dormitories after dark" by James Fujinami Moore: boy, naked, pole, punishment, late, older, shower, shining, ritual, touch, faded, smiling

Whirligig 425

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 "Sorrow Is Innate in the Human" by Francesca Bell: new, cheek, apples, touch, melt, hunger, pain, mouth, journey, dreams, burden, grief

Whirligig 424

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 "This Is My Vow" by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer: altar, sunset, lilacs, school, river, splash, paths, died, naked, remember, pause, wish

Whirligig 423

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 "This Is My Vow" by Lucia Mae Pitts: bitter, taste, wine, jaded, live, cup, sip, whims, swear, pluck, thorns, flowers

Whirligig 422

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 "My Life Closed Twice" by Cameron Awkward-Rich: name, tulips. ten, wax, innocent, spot, common, bulwark, poet, hawk, sleep, wrong

Whirligig 421

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 "In the House With No Doors" by Sarah Kay: modesty, kitchen, rush, whistle, shower, face, coffee, clearing, singing, love, sun, doorknob

Whirligig 420

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 "Someone Forgot to Whisper Your Death to the Bees" by Ansel Elkins: bees, ghosts, birds, sings, listens, pitches, window, letter, ribbon, straddles, skips, leans

Whirligig 419

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 from "Book of the Other" by Truong Tran: things, life, skin, pronounce, accumulate, stick, class, change, choices, grammar, collapse, buried

Whirligig 418

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 from "LET IT BE BROKE" by Ed Pavlić: daughter, argue, like, sings, nods, play, voice, shadows, music, bodies, room, understand

Whirligig 417

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 "I Dare You" by Dorianne Laux: books, retire, move, tables, closet, visit, hawk, leave, breathing, dare, laughs, closets

Whirligig 416

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 "Mouth" by Dana Roeser: mouth, delight, wave, back, button, dots, cousin, jagged, take, down, mistress, charismatic

Whirligig 415

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 "The Truth" by Natasha Rao: kind, father, read, imagine, tells, patient, alone, proud, world, piano, pages, capable

Whirligig 414

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 "The Railroad Worm" by Kimiko Hahn: daughters, shower, powder, worm, adult, attack, mate, luminous, wings, spot, joint, youngest

Whirligig 413

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 "The Honest Tongue" by Laura Da': gate, walking, gallows, harry, heron, shiver, beak, moon, ticking, church, brace, mauve

Whirligig 412

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 "Slow through the Dark" by Paul Laurence Dunbar: slow, footsteps, height, strange, devious, faithless, road, steep, cry, storm, darkness, grow

Whirligig 411

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 "Everything Lies in All Directions" by Hua Xi: death, grass, bees, wrote, refused, translates, drifted, changed, butterflies, future, mother, nothing

Whirligig 410

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 "Love Poem Attempt 3/?" by Taylor Byas: found, heat, hand, movies, chain, fantasy, breath, duvet, dark, night, heat, desire

Whirligig 409

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 "Short Essay on Love" by Sarah Marguso: alley, changed, curtain, picture, love, snow, lines, happy, toothbrush, story, names, give

Whirligig 408

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 "Heirloom" by Zeina Hashem Beck: rage, divine, carry, dresser, disappear, dancing, antique, hear, plunge, blanket, line, curve

Whirligig 407

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 "Improvement" by Danusha Laméris: eyes, lower, light, town, letters, branches, delicate, cathedral, ribs, parade, enter, acrobats

Whirligig 406

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 "Final Poem for the 'Field of Poetry'" by Phillip B. Williams: grip, grief, slam, cabin, flowers, death, tombstones, swallow, lilac, tender, roots, gone