Self | Creativity

The Proust Questionnaire Answered by @Claudia AKA Penofgold

An editor’s challenge by Tree Langdon

Photo by Kourosh Gaffari on Unsplash

1. What is your idea of perfect happiness?

Completion

Finished fourteen books
read by souls in green nooks
who wrote how the words took
them to fun, soulful looks.

(Illustrated by photo above.)

2. What is your greatest fear?

Death by suffocation (or knife). (Although a recent fear is closing my video on a Zoom call, and hoping no technical fluke causes the video to turn back on while I’m naked or going to the bathroom.)

John C. Fremont Jr. High, Las Vegas

Photo by Shane on Unsplash

When partially closed were the locker room doors
the children like sheep stampeded.
They stepped on my my back, my hair — my breath —
I felt sure I was close to a locker room death
‘till I saw top the lockers a friend’s standing brother,
he lifted one up, then he lifted another.
McCauley reached down, pulled me up from the floor…