longette – Page 3 – Wordflower poetry

page of a notebook showing writing and drawings. the drawings are of a life-size cockroach and an enlarged tardigrade or moss piglet. the notes relate to the poem and include its title

Sunset on the human race / A tardigrade could do better / Traditions get mangled, entangled, star-spangled / Genocide as a form of tourism: A slam poetry-esque Longette Lite* from the deviser 14 January 202614 August 2026

black and white image of people waiting outside in a very long queue, in a Latin country

I’ve Been Standing in Line for Five Days at the Motor Vehicles Department to Renew My License While My Husband Started Divorce Proceedings and Sold the House 4 January 202610 February 2026

First Nations: your January Longette Prompt 3 January 20261 February 2026

This Earth Keeps the Memory of Gadigal Footsteps Through Fire, Silence, Survival, and Unbroken Song Across Two Centuries of Dispossession and Resistance – 27th December 2025 31 December 202524 February 2026

Writing resolutions for the big ’26 31 December 202512 January 2026

Introducing the Longette Lite 22 December 202514 January 2026

Thoughts on the Longette: what a longette is and what a longette is not, and a call to action—the world’s first known longette, written in December 2025 13 December 202510 February 2026

Introducing the Longette: a new poetic form (and an event) 13 December 202531 January 2026