Sustained Vision
28 November 2020 Saturday Poetry Prompt: defy physics prompt
Falling up to the skylight, begin to count the figures and forms in a city of madness, reduced to a human-sized rectangle. The people of the blue, white, gold and the other riots, the emotional expressions of bronze, mixed messaging the vision, separation from the text. The continuity of this cloud disrupts the sight, screaming against pressure that can’t be pointed to, head pressed to hard against the glass to check on the chair below. Cedarwood and spruce, stinging the nostrils, pointing to the past dreams of earth…scattered around a few deaths for pages, hurting and confused, maddened and giddy, all at the same time. Then, there’s no city to be seen, there’s a dark hole, now. And still not let down, and still no look at who’s got control of the pulleys. Exhaustion enters the room, can be felt against the back, hopelessly counting and recounting in an effort to bring the vision back. Or convince yourself it was there to begin with. And the outlying fragments of the horizon escape your notice entirely.
J.D. Harms 2020
Prompt:
For today’s prompt, I want you to focus your poem or writing piece around an idea that goes against the laws of physics. Let your imagination run away with you. The whole piece does not have to be an exercise in the…
