May Golden Shovel #14

 source: A Vision That’s Epic and Brutal

 

The plot to save democracy unravels a

Skein of weeds and lies. It promotes a vision

Of sourdough, of braised love, of salted action that’s

Protecting its defenders. It could be the most epic

Picnic, feeding all, or it could drive off and

Abandon democracy, defenseless against those brutal.

 

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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.