Today I’m playing along with Laura Purdie Salas’s National Poetry Month Project. Each day, she picks a different card from a board game to guide her topic and writes a poem from an array of magnetic poetry words. Visit Laura’s blog to see the topic and words I worked from.
I’m a collector of quirky deer art, especially the kind you find at the thrift store for ten bucks. Literally, in this case. My family thought I was joking when I rushed to grab this fabric print that was leaning, overlooked, against a back wall at Good Will. Is it art? That’s one of our longstanding family debates. But now that it’s the subject of an ekphrastic poem, I think its artistic status is finally secure.
Deer
fear is her treasure
electric alarm &
she is up, around, across
she surges, dances, soars
her fear the music she lives by
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For my National Poetry Project, I’m playing along with the poetry calendar created by Margaret and Molly.
the dirigible plum 
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