Poems

Take a sentence or two out of the book, and arrange the the words into lines of poetry. Then add another sentence or two out of your own head, continuing the image, or responding to it. Then give your work a title.

PURSUIT

They were silent,

And gradually the skittering life

Of the ground, of holes and burrows, of the brush,

Began again;

The gophers moved,

And the rabbits crept to green things,

The mice scampered over clods,

And the winged hunters

Moved

Soundlessly

Overhead.

A shadow cooled the ground,

A wisp of cloud interrupting the afternoon's heat.

A siren wailed in the distance.

The men looked to each other,

Turned,

And ran.

BLINDSIDED

The little dog was sitting on the table

Looking with blind eyes

Through the smoke

And from time to time

Groaning

Faintly.

People disappeared, reappeared, made plans to go

Somewhere, and then

Lost

Each other, searched for

Each other, found

Each other a few feet away.

An old book was propped open

To a bad drawing of a cat

By a little girl long dead.

Her father reached for the dog

Who growled. The man flinched

And cried quietly

Alone.