For National Poetry Month, I’m writing poems inspired by words, lines, or images from Virginia Woolf’s Diary.
It’s nearly seventy degrees today, but another snowstorm with six inches of snow is in the forecast this weekend. Very South Dakota.
A katuata is a Japanese form that is new to me. It’s a 19-syllable poem with lines divided into 5/7/7 syllables.
Here’s the line from Woolf that inspired the poem: “a prelude of Spring–the vague discomfort & melancholy & a feeling of having come to anchor.”
Day #10: Winter
anchoring season,
winter–dormant, steady, still–
nature’s skeleton revealed
the dirigible plum 
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