Please, Silence
03 April 2021 Saturday Poetry Prompt: say that again?
the body still floats in bed, postural hypotension, a drug-like bliss, cotton warms against skin that was wet, the pang of drifting, the body a composite of gestures in water — Jessica Lee McMillan “Fluency”
Yellowed pasture limps past wind working its way through cracks in the car
Deer are in the bushes deer are in the bushes
and the rush away from something that looked a lot like Noise spins fucking riddles against a heartless brain
Please, silence I will walk out of this, too or ride whatever you got going on by then
Intersected by the redundant “the pang of drifting” as the poet says rings loud and louder
than the Noise you were supposed to be leaving
J.D. Harms 2021
Prompt:
Pulling a page from the notable, the brilliant Samantha Lazar, today’s prompt requires a quote to spearhead/inspire your piece. The limitations are that the citation must be from a Medium writer. I would like to further suggest that the Medium writer you select should be a Scrittura contributor, though I won’t demand that (I am 100% certain you can find amazing lines scattered throughout the publication! Probably more than any of us really know what to do with…). At least, let me say I strongly encourage this. It goes without saying that you need to give proper credit (name, piece, hyperlink). You may use it to preface your piece, as I have done; or you can work it in your piece. However, if you choose the latter, make sure you indicate where you got it and what words are not yours. Tag me in it (J.D. Harms), and write on!!
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