Terri Guillemets Archives — 2025
This is the archive of my publicly published writing from 2025.
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winter morning chills
still, birds gather by water
and take the cold plunge
TITLE: Chillin’
DATE: 2025 Dec 20
NOTES: haiku
bird alights on branch
mottled-lit golden leaves fall
drifting like feathers
TITLE: Stragglers
DATE: 2025 Dec 19
NOTES: haiku
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
serene spring morning
calm but for two birds brawling
uh — that’s not fighting
TITLE: Ruffled feathers
DATE: 2025 Dec 22
TEMPERATURE:81 °F
NOTES: haiku
lizard of leisure
idler in sun — bird shadow
how quickly he moves
TITLE: Idling
DATE: 2025 Jul 29
NOTES: haiku
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 fromWindows 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: you are here Machine Cooties , Archives Homepage
winter morning chills
still, birds gather by water
and take the cold plunge
TITLE: Chillin’
DATE: 2025 Dec 20
NOTES: haiku
bird alights on branch
mottled-lit golden leaves fall
drifting like feathers
TITLE: Stragglers
DATE: 2025 Dec 19
NOTES: haiku
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
serene spring morning
calm but for two birds brawling
uh — that’s not fighting
TITLE: Ruffled feathers
DATE: 2025 Dec 22
TEMPERATURE:
NOTES: haiku
lizard of leisure
idler in sun — bird shadow
how quickly he moves
TITLE: Idling
DATE: 2025 Jul 29
NOTES: haiku
robot words glint smooth —
till quiet reflection — hark —
metal-clanking soul
TITLE: Velvet tongue,
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:
DATE: 2025 Apr 1
Shark 1: “What just flew over my head?”
Shark 2: “ iOS eighteen.”
Shark 3: “I’m still reeling from
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