Poetry Month Prompt #14

April 14: 

A jackalope? The Loch Ness Monster? Dusti likes all things Bigfoot. Aliens? Ear worms? Demons? Pick a cyrtid (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cryptids . Sometimes Wikipedia is your friend) and write a new poem involving said cryptid. Write about meeting them in an unexpected place, like on a picnic table, or in the men’s (or any) room. Make them come alive and maybe even make them an unexpected color, like a blond werewolf, or a lavender Abominable. Just have fun. 

From the Muse Library: Year of the Snake by Lee Ann Roripaugh. “In her second collection of poems, Lee Ann Roripaugh probes themes of mixed-race female identities, evoking the molting processes of snakes and insects who shed their skins and shells as an ongoing metaphor for transformation of self. Intertwining contemporary renditions of traditional Japanese myths and fairy tales with poems that explore the landscape of childhood and early adolescence, she blurs the boundaries between myth and memory, between real and imagined selves. This collection explores cultural, psychological, and physical liminalities and exposes the diasporic arc cast by first-generation Asian American mothers and their second-generation daughters, revealing a desire for metamorphosis of self through time, geography, culture, and myth.”