Day 2 Important Work
- me
- Apr 2
- 1 min read
Updated: Apr 10
One of the things I love about participating in NaPoWriMo is waking up to some new inspiring art. The prompt: “Today, we’d like to challenge you to write your own poem in which you recount a childhood memory. Try to incorporate a sense of how that experience indicated to you, even then, something about the person you’d grow up to be.”
How have I never read Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold and Pittsylvania County by Ellen Bryant Voigt?
Important Work
It must have been a Saturday
Dad out on the front street with an ice
chipper. Mom looking out the window. What
will the neighbours think?! He’s still
in his striped flannel pajamas, red housecoat flapping
in the chinook wind. Big, untied galoshes stomp
frozen slush, brown with gravel and dirt.
He assists the sun.
April brilliance bouncing off the yard snow
melts the road into trapped lakes.
He chops pathways and the glacial water flows
oily blue-green to the gutter draining
away winter.
