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The Man
It’s time for Friday Fictioneers again! This week, our photo prompt is the image above, by © J Hardy Carroll.
ℵ
It could be worse.
At least there is a toilet and The People bring me food and water.
Sometimes, The Man comes alone.
I don’t like what he makes me do, but all I have to do is lay there.
Damn, does he ever stink!
Once, he brought me a pair of pretty-pink shoes (just to look at), since I’d “done good.”
I quit hoping someone would find me. The house is on a worn path, hidden by huge, gnarled oak trees.
I’m shackled, but the chains allow me to walk almost to the gate —
almost,
but not
quite.
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A Nanosecond
It’s Quadrille Monday over at the dVerse Poets Pub! This time our writing prompt is some form of the word crack.
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Almost never
a sliver of sunlight cracks through
the brick-like layer of eternal gloom.
For a nanosecond I convince myself that
you are at work
or the hardware store.
The accident never happened;
It was all a mistake
and you’ll be home
any minute.
(for Delfina O.)
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A Broken Heart
Today at the dVerse Poets Pub, we are to write a poem about anticipation, waiting, or hoping.
Delicate snowflakes swirl
and sparkle in mid-day sun,
dusting her feathers a
diaphanous silver glaze.
among the frozen foliage
her mate finds her
and gently shields her with a
massive wing
puzzled as the snow
where she lie turns pink, then red
he huddles closer
and waits. He waits for
a heartbeat, a flinch
a breath, a sound —
any sign of life.
Still, he stays
and he waits with
a protective wing
over her lifeless body.
Never leaving
as the sun sets
and the snow keeps falling.
