Not April

NaPoWiMo - Day 21- Today,a special poetry prompt. Poet Danielle Pafunda, has organized a cento contest. What’s a cento? It’s a poem composed entirely of lines from other poems. All day today, Danielle will be tweeting lines from various poems. Use these lines to compose a new poem.

Not April

This is not April and the magnolias

let silence drill its hole.

How fibrous and incidental it seems.

In the glaring white gap

each letter a cameo appearance, each one a treaty,

each one a place where plutonium safely resides,

disappear, emerge, twitch, reverse course,

while all the wild protected liminal woods,

obscenely jewel-toned, obscenely neck-like

implicit with stars in active orbit.

To open your tiny beak-mouth,

that looks as if it would never open.

A hundred times consider what you’ve said

there are sad beds wide enough for planting.