Tuesday, April 9, 2019

National Poetry Writing Month Nine

Prompt from Diane Lockwood's newsletter.  Sign up here

Only the poor walk in Memphis

I count the degrees
fifty above sixty
days during winter
relabel them My Spring

I crack the sidewalk
beneath crepe myrtle buds
dry-rubbed ribs smoking
no other soul in sight

I circle the drain
down Tennessee's southwest tip
bless your heart echoes
flushed into Mississip

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