Day 8
Prompt: we take inspiration from Laura Foley’s poem, Year End, and challenge you to write a poem that centres
around an encounter or relationship between two people (or things) that
shouldn’t really have ever met – whether due to time, space, age, the
differences in their nature, or for any other reason.
Anything but still life
A kind of suspended
animation,
intermission, a drip into
space,
this silver gasp of webbing,
light as air, heavy as
dew,
snaps its effervescence.
Curving like an artist’s
muse,
the Cruel Sea’s Pink
Lady opens,
its core burrowed into. Hidden
heart
exposed, its juices ooze.
Inside, out,
slithers an arching beetle,
black.
He lifts the brush and
paints.
Copyright Vickie
Johnstone, April 8, 2024
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