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.