Literary Impulse & Paper Poetry ‘Eudaimonia’ Prompt Submission

Many Dandelions

An exploratory free-verse poem and thoughtful note in response to the eudaimonia prompt

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After first pass, I wonder if eudaemonia
might have form
in the capitol city of Utopia

maybe it’s caught in the pages of Arcadia’s
Declaration of Independence or maybe it’s
cross-stitched through the navels
of a Dystopian people,
a blanket of space-time
holding everyone together and
splitting them all horizontally in half.

But I revisited the margins of my weekday
midnights,
a place where fairies and witches
lull my spelling.
and I practiced the rigid lines and
the sparse curves of the word,
until I got it right,
and Aristotle arose from his home in the Collective Mind

but not as a figment of play-acting tomb
but whole and faulty —
dull pieces drifting
in the loft of a real…