30/30: Golden Shovel poem #24

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She lingered in the park with some need

To swallow fruit trees with more

Flavors than she’d learned in college.

Not a taste of licorice could aid

Her move out of limbo, but it’s

Difficult not to swerve too far left, not

To swerve too far right, to swim, too,

With dolphins and giraffes. She was late

To an audience with protestors, but to

Atone, she knew she would have to ask.

 

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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.