30/30: Golden Shovel poem #23

source: What Do Women Want? For Men to Get the Shot

 

Dark threads lurk at the edge of what

some fear is the future. How do

roses and lilies spare women

who dance at dawn? The women want

to linger while the sun brightens for

a day that frees them from men.

Genders multiply in pools to

mangle feelings like love, desire, to get

swords for hate, bullets for fear, as the

sounds of solidarity shatter with one shot.

 

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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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