PAD Day 9: Something Concrete

Today's prompts from Poetic Asides and NaPoWriMo: (1) write an ekphrasitc poem, and (2) write a concrete poem. These two prompts are a bit tough to reconcile, but not impossible. Robert Brewer of Poetic Asides offered five photographs that we could use as inspiration, and I chose the one of an hourglass, then used its shape for my concrete poem. Another reason I picked the houglass is that I'm pretty bad at HTML coding, which is often necessary for formatting text into designs or shapes. An hourglass is pretty easy. This is untitled, but I'm calling it "the glass between..."

the glass between me and the world

where danger is more miniscule

than sand keeps me from

hazards, but every day

feels more cramped,

squeezed in, as

if I am a grain

that sifts

down

a

tiny

passage,

and one day,

out the other side

where things open up

and all the other grains and I

slip into a larger place, fall into

a space where everything is clear

and we have all the time in the world