May Golden Shovel #3

source: Missing Out on a Lot, but Creatively Filling the Void

She thinks there is no trace of her missing

Stories since she threw them out

Of the Milky Way. She put them on

A comet trailing teal-colored wings, a

Free message to aliens that no lot

Here is large enough to land in. But

The stories return, lumped in a stewpot creatively

Spiced and seeded with a filling

Too rich for Earth creatures, who are the

Lost angels still searching the void.

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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.