Tuesday, 21 April 2015

Day 21: Erasure


I found today's prompt - to pick a random page of prose, single out some words and effectively 'erase' the rest' - to be very freeing. What a joy to know that on days when you're feeling stuck, poetry can be as easy as this: random words in a random order.

Because I'm in a very Springy flowery mood today, I went to the nearby 'The Language of Flowers' by Vanessa Diffenbaugh. I edited down my word choices to make sense and this is the result: 




Spring Awakening

Small white flowers
with a yellow sun center,
pinwheel-shaped 
nose 
inches from the petals.

It begins with simple questions. 



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