Improv
And now here’s our daily (optional) prompt. Sawako Nakayasu’s poem “Improvisational Score” is a rather surreal prose poem describing an imaginary musical piece that proceeds in a very unmusical way. Today, try your hand at writing your own poem in which something that normally unfolds in a set and well understood way — like a baseball game or dance recital – goes haywire, but is described as if it is all very normal.
End with a seagull's screech
and her gentle caress across your body.
Then, she's walking along the top of the wall
And you are watching her closely, afraid she'll fall.
Then, you must part for some short period of time
That ends up feeling like sixty years
Then, you're talking and talking
And occasionally arguing, but mostly talking
Then, you're circling one another near stage right
Eyes locked, nearly touching, serious faces.
Then, there is a ladder with a bucket of water
She's atop the latter, leaning forward with a watering can
Sound of splashes and drips though empty auditorium
You're the bucket.
Begin with a frog's croak
Begin with swipe right
Begin with a seagull's purr
Begin again
Every evening at a some fixed time.
