April 18 - Photograph

Prompt was to use words from a specialty dictionary. I chose photography 


Strewn between

mountain and valley

these artifacts of who

we used to be

all of our sins

against the other

blown out for

a thousand miles

the evil we carved

upon wounded hearts

in the solar flare of

our self-destruction

while the dust bunnies

of what was good

still multiplied in

the days gone by

and now we find

our long since

empty glass

is thirsting anew

for this cocktail

we’ve made up of

two parts forgiveness

and two parts

re-imagination

and a dash of

amnesia

no doubt about it

there’s no halos

to be found among

the budding green

and vibrant blooms

of this new spring

while clipping the rot

of the dead and gone

grinding up the bones

of what used to be

to feed this fertile soil

spraying and praying

to water this garden

between whose furrows

we will dance

throughout the

long summer nights

to the tunes

of our poetry written

under the moonlight

radiant and resplendent

in the delight

of what has always

been between us

that which…just is