May Golden Shovel #13.2

source: Sign of Relief Amid a Frenzy of Gas Buying

She hopes there will soon be a message, a sign

To tell her what her next step should be, whether of

Moving forward or backward. She wonder what relief

Will look like, one step up, two steps down, amid

A cacophony mordant yet joyous, voices in a

Language she once knew before the frenzy

Of today overtook soft memories of

Gloom. She lacks enough gas

To escape the forced urgency of buying.

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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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