2010 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 1

For today's prompt, I want poets to take one step back and write a "closing the door" or "turning the page" poem. Feel encouraged to get creative with today's prompt (and the other 29 prompts--for that matter), but here's how I interpret this prompt: a poem that looks at where a person (or animal or thing) was and finds resolution with the fact that things won't be that way again.


wow. don't know if i can do this. i am sooooooo sleepy today. will just shoot cut print. here goes.


Good that it doesn't have to be a door
to close
to indicate it is time
to close
that the door no longer opens
into my life

Goodbye
Move on

Connections (once true?) swing on hinges that creak a bit
like memory
in memory

the blue eyes, oh
the jacket on the back of the chair
the mandolin
honey
honeycomb

this is not what i expected to write
not the door(s) i expected to close
but I must admit
aid
not be sorry for the formal silence
that fills this frame

goodbye to
maybe all but one

the latch doesn't catch

the door could be opened
with an inquiry
just one request
to come in
and see
the other changes
I've made
to my invisible home