"Dry" (poem)

The Missouri Review and textBOX announced the results of the Art of Omission contest.  Congratulations to the winners!  SURPRISE: I am not among them :-)  I did participate though!  We were asked to write a very short story or a poem - 50 words or fewer - using only the words contained in an excerpt from an essay.  (A task similar to The Sunday Whirl's challenge.)  Here's my poem:

~ Dry ~

 

A

Girl and

A boy measure

Time

In dreams -

A currency, taken

For

Granted. Their

Black eyes connect,

Over

Old stones

A new road

Unwinds, 

Leading to

Heaven. The child's

Song

Is meaningless

To me. My

Garden

Is dry.

 Smoke from burning

Past. 

Go to http://www.missourireview.com/tmr-blog/2012/03/art-of-omission-contest-winners/

to read the winning entries and the excerpt from Reesa Grushka’s essay "Arieh."

Live for the Love of it,
The Happy Amateur