#NaPoWriMo Day 8: A crooked line

A to Z Challenge

glissando – to slide: playing a very fast scale by a sliding movement

grave – very slow

NaPoWriMo

Prompt: Start with a line from another poet.

PAD Challenge

Prompt: Write a future poem

The Poem

(first line from anne carson bot)

A future voice in the dark

I am asking you to study the dark
to glimpse a future,
a glissando played grave
on the backs of eyelids

Is the crooked line imagined?
this jag in the path
weighted with time
grooved with new purpose

a texture, an echo
soft, small comforts
a distant tune of
what might have been