30/30: Golden Shovel poem #18

source: A Cautionary Tale for the Age

 

She sat on the bank of a quiet pond, a

Mirror into dark rages. Cautionary

Words wrapped around her neck, the tale

Too lurid for children, too wan for

Adults. What would become of the

bones when she surrendered to age?

 

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Here is how I am using Terrance Hayes’s Golden Shovel poem format, as proposed by the Sunday New York Times "At Home" section, for 30 Poems in 30 Days during National Poetry Month.

 

Take a newspaper headline that attracts you.

Use each word in the line as the end word for each line in your poem.

Keep the end words in order.

Describe the story that the headline is for.

The poem does not have to be about the same subject as the headline that creates the end words.