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Title:       Cart
Date:        2026-04-28
Link:        https://spool-five.com/poetry/2026_apr28_six/
Word Count:  114
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> Victoria Chang’s poem, “The Lovers,” is short and somewhat shocking,
> bringing us quickly from a near-hallucinatory descriptive statement to
> a strange sort of question, before ending on the very direct statement
> of a “truth.” Six lines, three sentences, and to top it off, a title
> that I think works for the poem but is only obliquely related to its
> text. Today, try writing a poem that follows the same beats: three
> sentences, six lines: statement, question, conclusion.

Look! That old horse-cart
lies slanted at garden's end.
And what of the sturdy old
clopper who used to pull it along?
Gone east now, to a tall building
Practising public administration