Taylor

If you’ve been paying attention to pop-music news over the past couple of weeks, you may know that Taylor Swift has released a new double album titled “The Tortured Poets Department.” In recognition of this occasion, Merriam-Webster put together a list of ten words from Taylor Swift songs. We hope you don’t find this too torturous yourself, but we’d like to challenge you to select one these words, and write a poem that uses the word as its title.

• Antithetical

Recently in Ireland, there has been some controversy about people seeking asylum setting up tents along the banks of a canal. The canal happens to run through a wealthy part of Dublin, so there have been lots of comments about the juxtaposition of these two realities.

A young man unrolls sleeping bag
Lays it down on canal banks
In blue shelter
Property of charity

Heels clicking on coffee shop floors
Brief repose from rain
An executive, or some sort
Morning latte