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Bones – the architecture of poems —

Upon a skeleton of ideas, the writer works alone,

stretching word muscle and thinking of home

For #mastprompt

Stars as brightened ink, dipped through night sky, then brushed across a moon-shadowed expandable canvas, each one a story etched into memory as constellation

for #mastoprompt

Littered in among the battlefield of ideas, the kernels of truth sit like seeds, waiting for moments to bloom

for #mastoprompt

Words bind us to verse, the worst part is held hostage to truth, a fluid rhyme dislodged, loose

#mastoprompt

That Dog Might

That dog just might be everything you never know and who but her of us is not afraid to ask them how’re they’re faring how’s the dog doing anyway all curled up like a broken question mark in the back seat Skylark Buick asleep but barely for to be fair a home like this with dented doors and a catalytic converter means choices every day decisions made but that dog that dog that dog is love pure personified with the unexpected sly slobber the kind of kiss that brings a bit of smile to the face most needing it

for #writeacrossamerica

inspired by The Damm Family In Their Car by photographer Mary Ellen Mark

https://philamuseum.org/collection/object/107472#:~:text=Her%20job%20was%20to%20spend,schools%2C%20motels%2C%20and%20shelters

Trap door tremors -

pull up on the handle

and see what bellows

for #mastoprompt

Charmed, I'm sure, she said through gritted teeth, anger at his interruption buried barely beneath

for #mastoprompt

PoemCatching (A Cootie Catcher Folding Poem)

1 Summer poems 2 Catching rays of sun 3 Clear skies, blue skies 4 The day's only begun 5 Lounging around 6 Like writers of young 7 Tasting the words 8 On the tip of the tongue

https://flic.kr/p/2oRoW6j

https://downloadablecootiecatchers.wordpress.com/category/blank/

I've a predictable tendency to drift, upon reading,

as if I'm needing rest from immersion inside of a text

for #mastoprompt

start from a corner and pull inward, sharp edges folded at the center of the writing of a poem of the story you were trying so hard to make clear before it disappeared

for Daily Create

https://flic.kr/p/2oRdj81 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BP3mDmKitig