POETRY

Blocked

On a prompt about writer’s block

Amy Jasek
Sep 19, 2024

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Medium format film image by author

I thresh myself here
breaking like a wave against
a hard mountain

I look around and all I see
is chaff, no wheat
no good grain at all
to craft into sustenance

I breathe, and the wind
carries it up and away
it rolls like Gideon into
someone else’s camp,
an errant pet
slipping out during a party

I put up posters
and wait for it to come back home

Weeks ago Paroma Sen published a prompt about writer’s block, which I missed but read about in a poem by Jenine Bsharah Baines. Belatedly, here is my offering!

Thank you readers, and thank you fellow writers for your constant inspiration.

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