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Penny Wagers

I write narrative poetry that leans more mythopoetic than personal. Also essays about perambulations, coffee"s effect on memory and other cool stuff. Come on in. The water"s nice, so feel free to take your shoes and socks off. pennywagers.substack.com

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The Last Wizard

Penny Wagers ·

2024/09/09

A villanelle about present risks and reckless possibilities. Get full access to Penny Wagers at pennywagers.substack.com/subscribe

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7:39

Blackout Wonderland

Penny Wagers ·

2024/09/02

Awhile back, I gave myself the task of writing one long, continuous blackout poem from Lewis Carrol’s Alice in Wonderland. This is the result of that challenge, which was roughly four months in the making. The result is far stranger than I thought it might turn out to be, and took directions I never intended.A small note about the physicality of the project: You will notice that the use of a Sharpie upon each page caused significant bleedthrough, rendering the page on the opposite side unreadable

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5:54

Meet Me at the Lighthouse

Penny Wagers ·

2024/08/26

Meet me at the Lighthouse in Hermosa Beach,That shabby nightclub on its foggy pier.Let’s aim for the summer of ’71,When all our friends were young and immortal.—“Meet Me at the Lighthouse,” Dana GioiaIt was Gary’s fault, really. That and my depression.I had a rare day to myself in the house. It was the first time I was able to come up for air after a brutal month-long work schedule that threatens to double down in the coming weeks. It was quiet and calm, which is what I needed. And feared.You have

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4:53

The Old Man

Penny Wagers ·

2024/08/19

Riddle-Weaver said:“Who is this man who stands in my hall? Who is this I’m speaking to? You won’t leave my hall unless you prove yourself to be even wiser than I am.”Odin said:“My name is Good Advisor, and I come to your hall thirsty from a long journey.”—VafthruthnismalKing Hjalprek outfitted Sigurth with ships and men for his mission of avenging his father. They were caught in a bad storm and delayed at a certain headland. They saw that a man stood by the shore and hailed their boats. Regin

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10:22

Green Siren Starbucks

Penny Wagers ·

2024/08/12

I bid you gather around, friends, for it is the month of First Harvest, and in the spirit of its occasion I wish to share a tale as wondrous as it is genuine. I have upended my hat, as is my custom, and if generosity compels you, I would be grateful for any gratuity you may find appropriate. But for the sake of yourself and your company, I would ask you to wait until our tale concludes before offering your donation. Attend well, for no matter how fantastic or incredible you find the events to

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1:44

Secret Forests

Penny Wagers ·

2024/08/05

"There are a good many roads here," observed the shaggy man, turning slowly around, like a human windmill."Seems to me a person could go 'most anywhere, from this place."Dorothy turned around too, and gazed in surprise. There were a good many roads; more than she had ever seen before. She tried to count them, knowing there ought to be five; but when she had counted seventeen she grew bewildered and stopped, for the roads were as many as the spokes of a wheel and ran in every direction from the place

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6:07

How it started

Penny Wagers ·

2024/07/29

So maybe you pick up the book because on day four of your summer squat it’s a toss-up between a ten-minute walk to the library and a forty-one hour drive to California to keep from losing what remains of your sanity. You’re between apartments, between semesters, between jobs. Your new lease doesn’t start for another week so you’re staying at your buddy’s place until move-in day. His lease is paid up but he’s not there, he’s home for the break and put a hold on his utilities. You can’t use the range,

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5:12

The Ghost of Robin Hood

Penny Wagers ·

2024/07/22

The Ghost of Robin Hood is an original poem about the merry men—specifically Little John, Will Scarlock, Much the miller’s son, and the minstrel, Allan-a-Dale—and the state of England after their master’s death. Details regarding the death vary according to accounts, but there is a general agreement that he was betrayed by a prioress after he sought to be bled at Churchlees. This story, which takes place later, was inspired in part by “Merlin: a Poem” by Edwin Arlington Robinson. Get full access to

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4:14

How to make coffee and remember

Penny Wagers ·

2024/07/15

IngredientsPrepare your whole bean coffee, v60 cone brewer with unbleached paper filter, kettle with variable temperature, burr grinder with variable grind settings and filtered water. You can use any mug you like. Maybe use the mug you stole from work, the branded one that came from the café on the ground floor where everyone lined up for a hot cup in the mornings, catching up and sharing stories, holding their branded mugs. The mug that had a shorter line to fill each morning after each round of

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3:25

The Three Destinies

Penny Wagers ·

2024/07/08

There stands a beautiful hall near the fountain beneath the ash. Out of it come three maids, whose names are Urðr, Verðandi and Skuld. These maids shape the lives of men, and we call them norns. There are yet more norns, namely those who come to every man when he is born, to shape his life, and these are known to be of the race of gods; others, on the other hand, are of the race of elves, and yet others are of the race of dwarves. As is here said:Far asunder, I think,The norns are born,They are not

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15:23

Poles Apart

Penny Wagers ·

2024/07/01

By July 2012, I was thirty years old and more familiar with classic rock than most of my own anatomy.I had my family to thank for that: Due to my parents and two uncles, I had seen The Moody Blues, the Rolling Stones, and Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young a few times over before I was old enough to drive. But that July, I'd have one of the most poignant concert experiences of my life.I had been back in America for about seventy-two hours, and still unpacking from a master's program overseas. I had no

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1:36

The bay: an ancient satire

Penny Wagers ·

2024/06/24

On one occasion the poet came to the house of Bres seeking hospitality … He entered a narrow, black, dark little house; and there was neither fire nor furniture nor bedding in it. Three small cakes were brought to him on a little dish—and they were dry. The next day he arose, and he was not thankful. As he went across the yard he said,“Without food quickly on a dish,Without cow’s milk on which a calf grows,Without a man’s habitation after darkness remains,Without paying a company of storytellers—let

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6:10

Time Beavers

Penny Wagers ·

2024/06/17

The day I discovered Time Beavers and pieced together their conspiracy, I was reading updates on Nextdoor.I like getting my community news from Nextdoor. The posts are always self-described as well-researched and articulate, and often drafted by used car salesmen, spouses of liquor store owners and other county luminaries. We never have “scientists,” “structural engineers,” “habitat biologists” or any such hucksters pushing insidious sustainability agendas on there—some of the people on Nextdoor

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2:16

Woodland advice from a country maiden

Penny Wagers ·

2024/06/10

“The trees, which were far apart where I entered, giving free passage to the level rays of the sun, closed rapidly as I advanced, so that ere long their crowded stems barred the sunlight out, forming as it were a thick grating between me and the East. I seemed to be advancing towards a second midnight. In the midst of the intervening twilight, however, before I entered what appeared to be the darkest portion of the forest, I saw a country maiden coming towards me from its very depths. She did not

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11:06

Can movies be eclogues?

Penny Wagers ·

2024/06/03

"My father used to sing every morning. When he'd had his coffee, when he shaved, even when he was losin’ his shirt at the pub. He'd make this effort to sing..." Get full access to Penny Wagers at pennywagers.substack.com/subscribe

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