Today's Magpie Tales visual prompt kicked a six-year-old memory to the forefront of my gut. With pleasure I took that memory and wrote from it. I had a photo from that day in 2009 I used as a bookend to the image provided as evocative imagery for creativity.
Chamberlain, South Dakota, 2009
Strident. Nothing here.
Railroad tracks to
nowhere are everywhere -
the prairie is eating
them to death.
raucous leaves mock
my skirt in expansive
stretches, sending
ruffles straight and
unplucking pleats.
Long rasping voices of
bony fingers, scraping
the boot’s laces into
knots oh, for
God’s sake --
shake the steel beams
free - my grey exterior
lopes north, leaving
commas across the
fields, gasping for
the something
no one else
can see -
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Nice take on the prompt
Posted by: DeeDee | July 13, 2015 at 12:14 AM
There is some wonderful language here. Good job. I really liked this one. :-)
Posted by: Elena | July 13, 2015 at 08:59 AM
Love these:
"raucous leaves mock
my skirt"
"leaving
commas across the
fields, gasping for
the something
no one else
can see"
Posted by: I. | July 15, 2015 at 04:56 PM
Commas across the fields...oh I love that...
Posted by: Tess Kincaid | July 18, 2015 at 12:19 PM