I’m celebrating National Poetry Month by writing and reading poetry, every day. My poetry project is rooted in a list of things that make me happy. I made this list on the 30th of March.
Today is day fourteen. ironing cotton napkins. The acrostic is hidden within. Stacey Joy shared this form on Ethical ELA
A Meditation on Rebirth
clumps of fabric
spill out
fResh but
indiscErnible
amongSt the dIsh, hand and bath Towels
gathered tOgether
they’Re
a disheveled family of
long lost cousins and widowed Aunts
perhaps lovers
mixed then maTched
I smooth and sort the winkled loT
One at a time
press
steam
away the trouble lines
rekindle what was
their origiNal form
To Read To Write To Be 