Today’s new word:
salvific adj. Having the intention or power to bring about salvation or redemption.
National Poetry Writing Month prompt:
Write a poem that engages with another art form – it might be about a friend of yours who paints or sculpts, your high school struggles with learning to play the French horn, or a wonderful painting, film, or piece of music you’ve experienced – anything is in bounds here, so long as it uses the poem to express something about another form of art.
Writer’s Digest April PAD (poem a day) challenge:
Write a correspondence poem. Maybe write a poem that would fit on a postcard or in a letter. Or write a poem about correspondence school. Or jump into newer forms of correspondence like e-mail or text messaging. Of course, not all correspondence is connected to communicating; sometimes one thing corresponds to another by being similar.
My poem
Correspondence
Crumpled correspondence tops the stack of junk
piling monument to passing days
a mountain from the mole hill
of the ignored
I light the old, unwanted, local rag
delivered, though I asked them not to
It ignites the dry wood of the limbs
from the last wind storm
Smoke sneaks into the living room
and collects halfway down the stairs
where the temperature changes between two worlds
in summer
The flame grows and I throw
the unopened envelopes in
salvific fire cleansing, protecting everyone
from my potential clone
A multiplying identity
participating in false economy
capitalist societies
of the imaginary
Reading
Today’s poetry book for inspiration is Collected Poems
Experience Writing 