Today's prompts from Write Better Poetry and NaPoWriMo: (1) Write a "home" poem, and (2)"write your own erasure/blackout poem. You could use a page from a favorite book, a magazine, what have you....Feel free to maintain the whitespace of the original text (as is traditional for erasures/blackouts . . . if anything can be called traditional about them) or to pluck words/phrases from your chosen source material and rearrange them."
I chose the latter treatment: taking words and phrases out of a source and rearranging them, so I could try a "double tanka" form. My source was a page from the article "The Design Lab" in the March 2026 issue of Better Homes and Gardens. It featured the home designs of Ralli Clasen, and I used both text and quotes from that page and played with them. It seemed to turn into a poem about a restless, pensive designer/homeowner. I think my first tanka stanza works better then my second one, however.
the knots and all the weird things
that swirl in her mind
come in big waves, inky blue—
one-minute walk to the beach.
“Drywall to me is sterile.”
“Wood warms everything.”
Possibilities out loud:
“Likely that we’ll move again.”
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