Today’s prompt from #NaPoWriMo is completely random:
And now for today’s prompt (optional, as always). Today, I challenge you to take a chance, literally. Find a deck of cards (regular playing cards, tarot cards, uno cards, cards from your “Cards Against Humanity” deck – whatever), shuffle it, and take a card – any card! Now, begin free-writing based on the card you’ve chosen. Keep going without stopping for five minutes. Then take what you’ve written and make a poem from it. (Hat tip to Amy McDaniel for the idea!)
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six diamonds
blood red against the
white skin of the card
like a tattoo
like symmetrical knives
ready to pierce you
in six places
the eyes
the mouth
the hands
the heart
the feet are useless to pierce
because you cannot escape
a six-sided blade
one edge to dismember
one edge to assemble
one edge to wound
one edge to heal
one edge to destroy
one edge to create
the diamonds get caught in your throat on the way down
after you have swallowed them
thinking they were marbles
thinking they were memories
thinking they were childhood
Words and Feathers 