Big Tent Poetry prompt: Start at the top of a page, “I want to write about __________, but I don’t know how.”
What if...
I want to write about broken lives,
sad crumbs transformed from good
death that goes unnoticed
dreams that die in blood-soaked sand
the linear who threaten from a box
hate by rote and know no answers
faith that elevates evil and ugly
and screamers loath to offer sanity
failing infrastructure
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and pain that knocks in the night
instead, I'll write about this iris
freshened on the fourth of summer
under a swirl of aging rain
Digital photo.
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