The Written World

24 March 2021 Wednesday Prose Poem: the weight of ink

Agitated while feeling ekphrastic over this blade of grass lying over this unidentified leaf, it probably

had a home, once, but now has merely drifted across my screen, permanent, or at least permanently avoided, not stepped on

not violating principles of the economy of breath and the green, or at least it was that way after I fell

back first into the elm we had, hitching a ride in the back yard, no grass grew, weeds between bricks, and dust

gravel washing in under the fence through the back alley, and it has since encapsulated its own specific story about dereliction and the distraction

with the weight of ink, and other battles.

J.D. Harms 2021

Prompt:

For the weight of ink prompt, all I’m going to say is to please remember, if you’re going to submit to this prompt, to submit your response as a prose poem. Saturday Poetry Prompts are not format specific; Wednesday Prose Poems are. This doesn’t mean you only have to use complete sentences, or write in strict paragraph form. It does mean that you elongate your stanzas as if they were complete sentences. If it looks something like the above, or any of my other prose poem prompts, you’re doing good. Okay, I lied. I never have just one thing to say. For this prompt, reflect on what that phrase means to you, evokes in you, what images it brings to your mind. As always, tag me in it (J.D. Harms 2021). Please, write on!!

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