NaPoWriMo #1 - The prompt this morning was to write a poem with the same first line as another poem. For my first line I chose a first line from a Robert Frost poem called Fragmentary Blue. NOTE: This poem is subject to change!
Unmaking
"Why make so much of fragmentary blue?"
when a sky could just as well be
yellow or peach on the long curve
of another day's horizon.
And if the world were different
if what happened had not
if this swatch of sky were onyx
or vermilion or sienna
or scribbled with crayons,
or if a particular bee fancied
a different flower, a daffodil
instead of a blood root
then this tangle of happenstance
might have unraveled quietly like a worn rug,
left to us our fragmentary peace
in another hue, not blue. not blue.
-- MM Walker
NOTE: the unmaking I had in mind was the unmaking of the Sandy Hook massacre.
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NOTE: the unmaking I had in mind was the unmaking of the Sandy Hook massacre.
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