Past

Finally, here’s today’s prompt (optional, as always). In “After Turning the Clocks Back,” Jennifer Moxley links present with past, using a few well-placed details to invoke both a sense of the daily “now” and a nostalgic sense of the speaker’s long-ago life. In your poem today, similarly compare your everyday present life with your past self, using specific details to conjure aspects of your past and present in the reader’s mind.

Great and terrifying computing machine
Seems to me that I have infinite attention
to give you

But the machine is new
barely two decades old

What, oh what, did I use to do
Before screen life?

Where did all the attention go?