Today’s poem is “April” by Louise Glück from the collection The Wild Iris. The book is available for purchase here.
April by Louise Glück No one’s despair is like my despair— You have no place in this garden thinking such things, producing the tiresome outward signs; the man pointedly weeding an entire forest, the woman limping, refusing to change clothes or wash her hair. Do you suppose I care if you speak to one another? But I mean you to know I expected better of two creatures who were given minds: if not that you would actually care for each other at least you would understand grief is distributed between you, among all your kind, for me to know you, as deep blue marks the wild scilla, white the wood violet.
Prompts:
1. Begin with “You have no place…” 2. Begin with “grief is…” 3. Draft a poem prompted by the name of month, day of the week, season. 4. Draft a poem in which the speaker is not human.
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