Day 28 Chew On That

Na/GloPoWriMo prompt:

"Victoria Chang’s poem, “The Lovers,” is short and somewhat shocking, bringing us quickly from a near-hallucinatory descriptive statement to a strange sort of question, before ending on the very direct statement of a “truth.” Six lines, three sentences, and to top it off, a title that I think works for the poem but is only obliquely related to its text. Today, try writing a poem that follows the same beats: three sentences, six lines: statement, question, conclusion."

Thanks for this unique prompt!

Chew On That

Parthenogenesis means momma

stick bugs replicate limitless trembling

daughters. What if tropical Walkingsticks

were released on the prairie? We don’t

know but females often survive where

people don’t expect they could.