I Imagine Cohen
06 February 2021 Saturday Poetry Prompt: what’s your hero doing?
I step out of my own shower, and I think of Cohen, hands in the pocket of his loose bathrobe, tapping his foot on the side of the tub while Marianne and Suzanne keep whispering in his head, his head so dark and torn by whole centuries of words. He threatens the voices with the tune in his head, and loses the robe. He considers the water, a collation of someone else’s work and then his long dark-haired body drips into the bath. He calls for the wine and woman, and suddenly the noise in his mind drifts into the water, again. No one loses the crags of his brow but everyone gets lost in them, the sunlight right above crowding out the moist cedar stinging unwary nostrils.
His hands play with the water, as if it were a body. It is a body and the words flood back with his ghost. But then run out of mine.
J.D. Harms 2021
Prompt:
For today’s prompt, what’s your hero doing?, write a piece that flows into and along with, your literary hero. You could select another type of hero, though I won’t be pleased if comic heroes show up (just saying…), though in order to properly respond to this prompt, your hero will be a writer. Tag me in it (J.D. Harms), and rock on!!
