This weeks driver of The Poetry Bus is Nevada-based writer, librarian and blogger Terresa Wellborn (great name). Hi Terresa! Her prompt was this remarkably theatrical photo by Keith Carter shown above.
I found it a tough enough prompt to start with, but the resulting piece took its own angle on things;
Noon
Saturday in May and summer arrives
the back garden a suntrap baited
with newspapers, birdsong and beer
In the cavecool kitchen I remain
a shuffling pale caucasian caveman
slicing through an orange block
of what we buy as cheese, four cut
slices snugly fit to blunted squares
of white bread licked with mayonnaise
I hover on the doorstep of kissing sun
blossom breeze, turn instead to monochromes
of costume, tragedy, reveal
the flipside of this page - another world
asleep, where now a person stirs
blinks awake, listens to the night
© P Nolan 2010
Worth noting too that fellow Poetry Busser and Connecticut-based blogger, Jeanne Iris Lakatos, is in Dublin at the mo and (I'm pretty sure) is appearing at The Glór Session downstairs in The International TONITE! (Can anybody confirm this?) Hope to make it along to this.
** Update : Jeanne's flight was delayed - it seems unlikely she'll be arriving in time for Glór tonight after all. Jeanne, drop me a line when you arrive? **
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