Today the prompt dealt with the practice of doing twenty little poetry projects, in other words writing twenty poems that each try out different poetic sleights of hand...i.e. a metaphor, an image, a rhyme, etc., one new trick for each poem OR an attempt to incorporate all—or as many as you can of the twenty tricks into one poem. I didn’t try either version of the prompt. Instead, beset by enough projects to see me through multiple pandemics, I took a slightly different approach.
Little Projects
in the bath
little projects
on our desks a million
little projects
our gardens grant us
vegetables and projects
in the mail they send you
little projects
she loves you more because
you take on projects
even birds have
nests for little projects
in dreams you never
complete your projects
bird count cloud watch
porch rail seedling
doorknob street lamp
key cut changeling
sing a little song
to all your projects
sing a lullaby
to all your projects
sing and say fare well
to all your projects
