*The prompt for today is to take a published poem, and line by line from the bottom up, write a line in response, "revising" the original work, seeing it anew. The effort feels like call & response, and the original poem floats beneath the new, making a palimpsest. I chose to work with a few verses of Sonia Sanchez's "Haiku and Tanka for Harriet Tubman", which appears in the April issue of Poetry.
her legs catch light
they bridge and lift you
a golden hope away
unbound dark a shield
pressing, pressing
out, out
free rain
free air
on your skin
our own way
curved, arched
spinning our power
