Some Time Difference
16 June 2021 Wednesday Prose Poem: twisted chronology
I am awake — remember when curled you side sleeping — me … what was I doing — berating the silences, the untouched
unable to restore the differences now — are you working, holding court in beauty somewhere downtown in a building I can’t see from here — prairie sky blockage
Now you’re on the hill — cast between a few mistakes — many, probably — and not indifferent but — unskilled
The tragic of the uncertain — I keep putting rain on that pavement, kneeling — swearing — but I think it might have been dry — no cars close by, hanging by your hand
or worship of underwear, you’d hang it in the bathroom, along general vanity — shower rod no longer naked — thrown into a pubic frame of mind — on your balcony after that first night —
How many times can a man go wrong?
J.D. Harms 2021
Prompt:
Right. So, as always, you don’t need to go as naked as I have. What I’ve done here is dropped several scenes from several (failed) relationships; occasionally, one can create a stronger image by way of mixing (twisting) the references to one event in history with another (back or forwards depends on you). For today’s prompt, work a piece…
