Learning to Look Back
Don’t neglect this glance in your arsenal:
The strategic turn of the head to one departing
Can serve to seal the deal. But here’s the trick:
Work quickly, lightly, as with ink on paper.
Take too long with it and your head will
Ache, you’ll start to see your childhood
And beyond, times gone and gone before
That, and you are ink, a dark puddle.
That was a fine piece of paper
You started with, and now it’s ruined.
Today's prompt was "looking back."
Today's judge was Okla Elliott, a poet who has a novel coming out soon. Looks scary!
Image: Harunobu
Don't I know it. This is perfectly stated, but I need some white-out. Or one of those cute little pens from 6th grade that came w/ ink erasers. But there I go again.
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