She feels her arms too long, her legs too short
To reach the stars, her desired goal for answers on
The questions that wake her at midnight. How many doses
Of moonlight will awaken her dead mother and
How many sprigs of belladonna will feed the dreams struggling
To strangle her? Will Orion hunt down her demons to
Feed his hounds? Is it Virgo or Hydra who will deliver
Her from Nature’s womb? She submits to the universe, to them.
source: Short on Doses and Struggling to Deliver Them
source: Finding a Sailor Lost to Ice and Time
She joins the exploration team in hopes of finding
Answers to all questions. She believes certainty is a
Requirement for wisdom. An alien sailor
From a galaxy far away whispers in her ear a lost
Knowledge of only question after question. She splits to
A shady world, leaving a closet full of known ice
And fire, opening up to unknowns, uncertainty, and
So many questions that overdoses on time.
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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.
source: A Maternal Theme and It’s Not All Sweetness
Why is there only one day for a
celebration of “Mom”? Why is the maternal
steeped in stereotype? Why is the theme
of motherhood so fraught for both women and
men? Is it because it’s
the source of our existence? Why not
let our mothers be both good and bad, have all
emotions? Why should she be only sweetness?
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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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