Grabbing Inspiration from the Everyday

Diane Aoki
4 min readFeb 9, 2020

Writing poems in idle time

Photo by Danielle MacInnes on Unsplash

I have a great temporary gig in which I monitor students as they take online tests. I selfishly have been able to mine this time for my own purposes. Being confined to this time and this place has been like a nest in which ideas come to roost, and I birth them into poems.

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Diane Aoki

Playwright, essayist, teacher, artist, songwriter, poet. Creativity Activist.