Skein

I’d rather yarn a story
And while taking inventory

I spied a veritable mess
A ball of stress

Ill-promised prisms
Hand-built prisons

Variegated strands
Of endless demands

Countless stitches
Unloved britches

It’s spring, soon we will pull weeds

Finally, here’s today’s (optional) prompt, taken from our 2016 archives. Today, we challenge you to write a poem in which you closely describe an object or place, and then end with a much more abstract line that doesn’t seemingly have anything to do with that object or place, but which, of course, really does. The “surprise” ending to this James Wright poem is a good illustration of the effect we’re hoping you’ll achieve. An abstract, philosophical kind of statement closing out a poem that is otherwise intensely focused on physical, sensory details.