30/30: Golden Shovel #13

source: Music Shows Its Power to Soothe and Heal

 

She never wanted to face the music.

She ran when they put on shows

with a lively song. She wondered if its

lilting melody could uncover the power

to lift her out of the quotidian, to

Float her among crows whose calls did not soothe,

To drag her supine across rusty nails and

Deposit her dreams in an account that does not heal.

 

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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.