Day Twenty-One

Happy Monday, all, and a very happy twenty-first day of Na/GloPoWriMo.

Today, our featured participant is Sunra Rainz, whose Roethke-inspired poem for Day Twenty has an irresistable and friendly rhythm.

Our daily resource is the Shanghai Museum, where you will find everything from a carved hairpin featuring two mustachioed fellows, to a hot-pink Taoist master, to a calligraphic ode to wine.

And now here’s our daily (optional) prompt. Sawako Nakayasu’s poem “Improvisational Score” is a rather surreal prose poem describing an imaginary musical piece that proceeds in a very unmusical way. Today, try your hand at writing your own poem in which something that normally unfolds in a set and well understood way  — like a baseball game or dance recital – goes haywire, but is described as if it is all very normal.

Happy writing!