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Terri Guillemets
Archives — 2025




This is the archive of my publicly published writing from 2025.  —tg

SEE  ALSO 2024,  2023,  2022,  2021,  2020,  2019,  2018,  2017,  2016,  2015,  2014,  2013,  2012,  2011,  2010,  2009,  2008,  2007,  2006,  2005,  2004,  2003,  2002,  2001,  2000,  1999,  1998,  1997,  1996,  1995,  1994,  1993,  1992,  1991,  1990,  1980s,  ARCHIVES  HOMEPAGE







glowing electric pink
surges across saguaros
sparking the sun's burning gold —
colors blazing so wild
the sky cradles them to calmness
with dusky embered amethyst —
and tucks in the sleepy day
with blankets of serene shadow —


      TITLE:  Embering
      DATE:  2025 Aug 22







Mockingbird lives in a tree just outside our door —
and every spring he tells songful bedtime stories
about his ardent quest to find a mockingmaiden —
his lovely talented tales start with once upon a time
then it’s nonstop plot and plagiarism all night long
with the happy ending note sometime near dawn!


      TITLE:  All-nighter
      DATE:  2025 March 22







robot words glint smooth —
till quiet reflection — hark —
metal-clanking soul


      TITLE:  Velvet tongue, forged heart
      DATE:  2025 Sep 27
      NOTES:  senryu on AI writing







A. I. writing is that awkward body of work
based on shining metal rickety framework
and if not patched with flesh — just doesn't work


      TITLE:  Graft
      DATE:  2025 Sep 27
      NOTES:  on artificial intelligence







Life is a repeated shattering and gluing back together of the heart.


      TITLE:  Battle-scarred
      DATE:  2025 May 1







drivers of  “progress”
steering us toward a cliff
at capital velocity


      TITLE:  Racing in stock cars at breakneck greed to the fall of mankind
      DATE:  2025 Apr 1







the drivers of  “progress”
are steering us towards a cliff
in stock cars—at terminal velocity


      TITLE:  End of the race
      DATE:  2025 Apr 1







Shark 1:  “What just flew over my head?”
Shark 2:  “ iOS eighteen.”
Shark 3:  “I’m still reeling from Windows 11 bonking my noggin.”


      TITLE:  Jumpers
      DATE:  2025 Jan 1
      NOTES:  revised







after seven years of severe perimenopause
i am 95% no longer the person i used to be
and don’t even feel like a woman anymore
just a meltdown mutant shellshocked blob
of stress, desiccation, emotion, exhaustion


      TITLE:  Dry Fog of Oblivion
      DATE:  2025 Mar 5







YEARLY  ARCHIVES 2024,  2023,  2022,  2021,  2020,  2019,  2018,  2017,  2016,  2015,  2014,  2013,  2012,  2011,  2010,  2009,  2008,  2007,  2006,  2005,  2004,  2003,  2002,  2001,  2000,  1999,  1998,  1997,  1996,  1995,  1994,  1993,  1992,  1991,  1990,  1980s,  ARCHIVES  HOMEPAGE





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