My Day 18 poem is my response to the NaPoWriMo.net prompt, which is to write a poem based on the title of a chapter from a book. I opted to use one of the many books in my to-read pile, Haruki Murakami’s Killing Comendatore.

it is inconvenient, yes—
but it means things are malfunctioning
the way they’re supposed to.

Once I poured cold orange juice
into a thick glass I’d just taken
out of the dishwasher.

As I closed up the carton,
the two halves of the glass
slid smoothly apart; the juice spread
across the counter and over the edge.

I have never been able to recreate this.

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One assumes there is no connection
between two dissimilar statements,
but they both arose
from the thoughts of the same poet,
in this case me.

If you ask me how I got from one to the other,
I may have an answer.

Or it may be that the second
was the next thing to come to mind.

(17 April 2021 — posted April 18th)

 

 

 

 

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