May Golden Shovel #4

source: A Beloved Hemlock Lives On as Art

 

Trees talk to one another. They have a

Secret life sending billets à deux via roots to beloved

Saplings many feet or yards away. A hemlock

poses lugubrious questions of twigs, asking if their lives

Are worthwhile despite squirrels’ rapid jetés on

One twig after another. Twigs sigh. The squirrels’ leaps tickle as

One by one, they skitter-skatter, pitter-patter into art.

 

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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.