Friday, June 11, 2010

For today's prompt, write a poem that incorporates three things you can see from your computer. Use those three things however you wish. Maybe there's a picture, a window and a desk lamp. Maybe a pen, a paper and a cell phone. Pick the items, then write a poem. (If you want, for fun, you can include what the three things you used are either before or after the poem.)

Drum. Letter. Wind.

It is an actual letter.
Written by hand.
It has my name on it.

The drum can't make music without the hand
- hands cupped, kept time.
The letter can't come out of the envelope
- unfold, onion skin flutter, words exposed

But I, almost as much a thing, can get up now
and stand in my doorway
even though my life is quiet, quiet as a thing
and I can feel the wind
and imagine a pennywhistle
and someone whispering my name.

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