Into A Line: Free Verse

Saturday Poetry Prompt: rework the phrase

Out of thin air into the shadow of the skin of a line*

breathe through black and white nerves screen coalescing madnesses reach higher voltage

like copper threads through each lick and twist of a tongue

hearing each crack in the sentence of a word and the muscles expand and retract and the line forms over them

again.

J.D. Harms 2021

*After writing this, I realized this resembled Ondaatje’s novel titled, The Skin of a Lion. Resonance never hurts…

Prompt:

I may have done a prompt like this before, but we’ve added a fair number of new writers since I began writing prompts for Scrittura well over a year ago. Take the phrase “out of thin air/into the shadow,” and rework it in some fashion within the structure of your first stanza. The poem can be on any subject you choose, but the first stanza should have each of those words placed somewhere within it. Tag me in it, and write on!

Speaking of new writers, we’ve added some wonderful new ones! Come check them out here on Scrittura!!

Melissa Coffey Zay Pareltheon Eli Snow Jessica Lee McMillan Viraji Ogodapola Samantha Lazar Thief Fox Kerry Terry Barr Roy Reichle Sally A Mortemore Alan Asnen Mimi Bordeaux Caitlin Rebecca Kyla Sawyer Aisha Manapova Laurie Perez Lori Lamothe Betsy Denson Jeff Langley Jesse M. Gonzalez Ann Marie Steele Barry Dawson Jr. IV Gary Chapin Paroma Sen Joe Luca Joseph Lieungh Annine Massaro Janaka Stagnaro Gurpreet Dhariwal Andrea Juillerat-Olvera Connie Song Vic Spandrio Michelle Berry Lane Pablo Pereyra Wry Welwood Skye (Vixen Lea) Michael Hall Era Garg Rhonda Marrone Danielle Loewen Kristie Darling Dennett Lennie Varvarides j.calabrese Dennett Mark Tulin Rowen Veratome Enne Baker Georgia Lewitt Carolyn Riker Renee Podunovich Jenine Bsharah Baines Amy Jasek