Fire and Darkness
What should you burn (or sell), but haven’t yet? How do you define marriage? What do you call out in the dark?
For our last week together before we embark on the 2023 Write Across America virtual marathon, we enjoyed one last round of poems we hope to work into after poems (one form of this is the golden shovel – see Jabari Unmasked).
The poems we brought for our inspiration include:
- The Auction by Theodore Roethke
- In Praise of Mystery: A Poem for Europa by Ada Limon (interview)
- Marriage by William Carlos Williams
- Fire by Billy Collins
