Could be a snap, Heather
sharply focused, anyway...
Doug
Quoting "Heather Taylor" <[log in to unmask]>:
> Hey all,
>
> Not sure if you heard but lots of people are doing a poem a day being that
> this here month is poetry month. I think every month is poetry month, but
> hey - we gotta do something every now and then for everyone else to
> celebrate it.
>
> I'm following Robert Lee Brewer's Poetic Asides -
> http://blog.writersdigest.com/poeticasides/ and adding a poem a day. I
> thought I'd post them here as well as I've been quite quiet lately.
>
> Also thanks everyone for answering my story questions. I'm putting it all
> together this weekend to send off to my dramaturge. Hopefully he'll like
> it...
>
> Heatherx
>
>
> POEM DAY 1:
>
> In the Institute
>
> Her floors still sparkle
> years after her brain melted
> and disorder reigned.
>
> It started with string,
> a loose thread that unravelled
> her tightly wound self,
>
> his barbed words poking
> holes in clammed up memories
> until they slipped out
>
> and she, like the egg,
> sat in pieces on the floor
> scrubbing and scrubbing
>
> it clean.
>
>
Douglas Barbour
11655 - 72 Avenue NW
Edmonton Alberta T6G 0B9
That’s not a cross look it’s a sign of life
Frank O’Hara
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