A few years ago, I had an impulse to draw squares and fit my poems inside them, giving myself a spatial constraint. It worked so well! I wrote a 7-poem sequence which made us way into my manuscript. I SO appreciate this prompt and will draw even smaller squares to give postcards a try. Thanks for all your thoughtful prompts!
A few years ago, I had an impulse to draw squares and fit my poems inside them, giving myself a spatial constraint. It worked so well! I wrote a 7-poem sequence which made us way into my manuscript. I SO appreciate this prompt and will draw even smaller squares to give postcards a try. Thanks for all your thoughtful prompts!
I really like the idea of constraints and love working with them. Just that bit of structure gives a place to hang the words.
Love this
Thanks so much!
Love this poem! A glimpse at another person's world is an intriguing moment. Thanks for sharing.
My poem, No. 9 Hamsted Road, originally published in Panoply -- https://panoplyzine.com/no-9-hamstead-road-by-russel-dupont/
NO. 9 HAMSTEAD ROAD
On the front of the
“Private Mailing Card”
is a photo of a dirt road,
lined with trees and old houses
perched on the edge
of a bay or a large pond.
What looks like a broken pier
juts out into the water
and a single, small boat
floats at the edge of the card.
On the reverse, a 1 cent
Benjamin Franklin stamp
is pasted upside down.
There are two post marks,
showing the card was mailed
from Boston on Dec 28 1903 at 12:30P,
addressed to Mrs. H. S. Ford
at No. 9 Hamsted Road
and “Received” at
The Jamaica Plain Station.
The street name is misspelled
and I wonder if Mrs. Ford
ever received the card
and learned that “Harry”
was “sorry I did not
let you know sooner”.