National Poetry Writing Month, Day #10

Today’s napowrimo.net prompt is to write a ‘book spine’ poem. This involves writing a poem using the titles of books on your bookshelf. My poem neatly divided itself into sections, based on where my books are shelved. Instead of numbering these sections, I have labelled them according to their approximate (relative) compass points. The book titles I used are listed in the tags.
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National Poetry Writing Month: Day #1 (April 1, 2013)

For the first day, I followed the prompt, which was to write a poem that has the same first line as another poem.

(I got my first line for this poem from the book Hailstones and Halibut Bones, by Mary O’Neill.) Continue reading