Photo © Roger Allen Bout
Contemplation skims
glassy surface
peers and sees
in limpid depths
fingerlings darting
in and out
the algae-furred
wreckage
This poem was written in response to the One Shoot Sunday challenge at One Stop Poetry.
“The Show Must Go On” by Jacob Lucas
(© Jacob Lucas – Used with permission)
After the curtain has tattered after the floor is rot after the plaster has blistered and all the windows are shot after the seats are vacant hauled away to the dump after the cabinet's ravished script is a sodden lump still the tree, river-rooted flourishes center-stage leafy and bountifully fruited into a ripe old age
© 2011 by V. Nesdoly
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I wrote this poem for the Photo Prompt Challenge which happens at the One Stop Poetry Blog. This week Chris Galford interviews Seattle photographer Jacob Lucas (who took the photo for the prompt).
You’re welcome to join the challenge. Read the interview here, then scroll down in the post to the challenge photo and directions on how to participate.
