Day Twenty-Eight #NA/GloPoWriMo

Day 28 Prompt: 

And now for today’s (optional) prompt. Victoria Chang’s poem, “The Lovers,” is short and somewhat shocking, bringing us quickly from a near-hallucinatory descriptive statement to a strange sort of question, before ending on the very direct statement of a “truth.” Six lines, three sentences, and to top it off, a title that I think works for the poem but is only obliquely related to its text. Today, try writing a poem that follows the same beats: three sentences, six lines: statement, question, conclusion.

Happy writing!

Electrotherapy

 

My yoga guru once told me

we store fear in our hips.

 

Does that mean all words, whether whispers

or mountains, weigh the same?

 

We insist on the full range of motion,

but forgiveness is an impulse.

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