Writing inspired by the SWC creative writing prompt: Use 31 words to describe January.
31 Words to Describe January
by Tamara Raidt, Keith Gray, Jasmine Fassl, and Dagmar Bayer
By Tamara Raidt
ethereal whiteness/ immaculate time/
of the year/ but I am blue all along/
just counting/all the Mondays/
is an endless vertigo/ while longing for/
buzzing spring/ and lapis lazuli skies.
By Keith Gray
Excitable intentions and first day promises as clean as fresh fallen snow. I’ll take bold, deep footprints and admire the patterns of my treading. The trick is not letting them melt.
By Jasmine Fassl
White snow → wet slush.
Parents on holiday: → mail.
→ plants.
→ making fire.
→ organising operation.
Great-grandma: → worry.
→ caring.
→ visiting.
Preparing: → anthology.
→ retreat.
Working every Saturday.
28 books.
Hopeful…
By Dagmar Bayer
January?
Once
you
start
a
task
it
triggers
an
insidious
avalanche,
“do
it
next
year”
is
over.
Let`s
hibernate
until
everyone
forgot
about
their
new
year`s
resolutions.
Hurray,
it`s
the
31st!