The Poetry Stash: 23October2024

My Mother Stares at Walls by Gil Arzola

Today’s poem is “My Mother Stares at Walls” by Gil Arzola from the collection The Death Of A Migrant Worker. The book is available for purchase here.

My Mother Stares at Walls by Gil Arzola

Prompts:

1.	Begin with “I don’t know what she sees…”
2.	Begin with “when sleep comes…”
3.	Pretend you an empath. Draft a poem imagining what another person feels, hears, smells, dreams, etc…”
4.	Draft a poem in which the last line is a question.

5. Photo by Vladimir Srajber via pexels.com. Use the image as a writing prompt.

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