Poetry Month Prompt #11

April 11:  

Think about an item of clothing or an accessory (the t-shirt that’s worn and well loved, the necklace that’s been in your family for generations) that means a lot to you, or, a piece that was a disaster for you (the light blue tux at prom, or the mini skirt at a church wedding). Write about it. Think about all the places you went and emotions you felt when you wore it. Personify the object and write a poem about its experiences. 

From the Muse library: Flute Ship “Castricum” by Amy England. “What falls from the sky? What, exactly, is it crows say when they gather together? Should you trust a snake with a monocle? What does the poet see in her sleep? Read on. On The Flute Ship ‘Castricum’, the muse is a library is a man in a white shirt, the mud tablets of the law are still wet (there’s time!), but hurry, the tourists are out in force. In these richly-imagined poems, Amy England quite literally recreates the art form, showing us in poem after poem new ways to dazzle. Yet she makes us, somehow, perfectly comfortable, right at home. Endlessly smart, sensuous, funny, these poems make us gasp with recognition and pleasure. They won’t sit still: they perform for us.”