2025 Yahtzee Roll #2: Fill #5

Title: Reclaim
Poetic form: terza rima sonnet
No. of lines: 14
Rating: Gen
Prompt:
Summary: a terza rima sonnet about an island reclaiming itself after a crime

even before evil strikes, island sands
are lifting. as death assails, as horror stills
dead air, fine grains are shifting. a boat lands.

black boots imprint, clomp-pace, stomp-trample. wills
exert themselves: measure, collect, record
as flying grit abrades, as soft dune-hills

extend themselves inland, onto floorboard,
past threshold. silt alive, hungry in reach.
inquiries conclude. departures afford

unimpeded campaign to smooth each breach,
erase each edifice, to break each frame,
to bury all. seabirds above the beach

bear witness to the canvassing, they name
it in their echoed cries: reclaim! reclaim!

News & Views

1. I fell to temptation and went to JoAnn's (a craft store in the US that's going out of business). Everything was 50% off. I walked around and around. There wasn't anything I couldn't live without, it was very picked over, but I got a few pieces of paper and 2 washi tapes and a couple of stickers. I won't ever go back. I hope to show off my new buys very soon.

2. I saw a Youtube video about creating a dopamine menu. So this is a list of 1-minute, 5-minute, and 10-minute activities that give you pleasure in order to give yourself the dopamine hit to keep you motivated to complete tasks. It's geared toward people with ADHD but I created one for myself. We'll see if it helps with procrastination and other mental obstacles to Getting Stuff Done.

3. Minor wanted to get chicken at a place, and since I was out of dinner ideas, we did and I ate cole slaw for the first time in many, many years. I never ate it as a young person, but it isn't bad!

4. I did fills for my second Yahtzee roll at GYWO. I did 3 loads of laundry today. I finished At Bertram's Hotel and started The Third Girl. I did a Marie-Kondo clean & purge of a closet and dresser. On Sunday, we drove an hour into the countryside to take Minor to his first track meet of the season. He got one PR in the 800 meters. It was rural (see cows). It was cold, and I had the absolute worst cup of coffee I've ever drank.



New item: ASMR of the Week. Last week I mentioned Ryu & Ryua's camping. [https://www.youtube.com/@RYUCAMP] and this week, it's animated animals getting beauty/health treatments (HABO asmr). Here's a ferret getting his teeth cleaned. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhFaghbhvHk&list=WL&index=2]