source: With Much to Lose, Afghan Women Fear Stifling Return to Past
The hills are bare, with
Few signs of human life against much
Emptiness. Wooden stakes form an enclosure to
Hold some sheep, some goats. To lose
An animal is to lose income for the Afghan
Women living here. The women
Tend sheep, goats, kitchen, without expressing fear
Of the men who come now and then, stifling
The women’s wish for their daughters’ return
From exile, from freedom. What could daughters do to
Push back this hurtle backward to the past?
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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.
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