cracked

I created a "prompt" for myself today: choose seven words at random from my magnetic poetry set, and write a poem using all seven. They were pretty random, and definitely produced a poem that I would not have written otherwise! (The words are included after the poem, if you're curious.)

 

young,

restless,

she squirms in her own skin,

an unintentional asshole,

unyielding as concrete

(which – as she will learn –

fractures when it falls)

 

isn’t he a pretty one?

she drops from a dizzying height

into the blood bath of emotion

that may or may not

be lust

 

 

(The seven random words were: young, concrete, pretty, bath, which, squirm and asshole.)