He hitches up damp denim overalls in the morning after what
He feels is a call from unknown forces to bring this
Vision of trash turned into beauty to his town.
He cannot know how wants turn into needs
Desires into demands, peace into war. What is
The elusive route away from days drowning in a
Maelstrom, tsunamis of jeweled seas battering concrete
Dikes, planting seeds of the invasive whale.
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I’m continuing to use 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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