Poetry Prompt – April 9

April 9 – let’s lean more towards comedy for today and write a poem about a kiss that was incredibly bad, like the one that was too wet, or the one that was like kissing dead animals. Lean into it, make it funny and fun. But don’t use the word ‘kiss’ except in the title. 

From the Muse Library: Air Kissing on Mars by Kim Dower. A Kim Dower poem is a portal to a haunting universe of everyday life wrapped into poetic reverie. Lost languages, locomotives pummeling through dreams, taxi drivers thrown by the earth’s rotation, shadows in closets, vanishing carrots, men who exfoliate all come together in this opus of shining and startling wisdom. At once rhapsodic, edgy and sensual.