From Alice Oswald “Looking Down”

I know I could look up and see (the clouds)
curled like fossils in the troposphere

but I am here
I have been leaning here a long time, hunched
under the bone lintel of my stare

Your prompt:
“I have been leaning here a long time…..”

“When I find myself in times of trouble….” (after ‘Let It Be”)

From ‘For Desire’ by Kim Addonizio

To hell with the saints, with martyrs
of my childhood meant to instruct me
in the power of endurance and faith,
to hell with the next world and its pallid angels
swooning and sighing like Victorian girls.
I want this world. I want to walk into
the ocean and feel it trying to drag me along

Your prompt (fill in the blank! Keep writing until something lands. If stuck, begin by repeating bits of
the poem):

“To hell with____________, I want _________________”

Can you remember your favourite song from when you were a teenager? Or your favourite song from last summer? Or a song that was caught in your head this year?

Write the memory of hearing that song – for you, or for a character.
Where were you? How did it sound? What does the song make you think of?

So I remember when we were driving, driving in your car…

(after Tracy Chapman, Fast Car)

‘The beating of my heart, the passing of blood and air through my lungs..’

(after Walt Whitman, Song of Myself)

“Hello, darkness…”

(after The Sound of Silence)