I suspect this poem would have been quite different if it were written in the morning. But it wasn’t. Here is the prompt:
THE WIND
Five Verbs: howls, gusts, whispers, slips, breathes,
Five Nouns: air, breath, puff, breeze squall
Poem:…
Last night the wind shifted.
Abruptly.
Yesterday, the lazy air from the Gulf
Drifted around my neighborhood
Lounged with damp fingers on the flagstones.
A sweaty dame on a chaise lounge
too bored to get up and leave.
The north…
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