Saturday September 5th, 2020

The exercise:

Write a four line poem about: closing in.

2 comments:

Greg said...

Hmm, your description of last Sunday's blog post (Saturday for you) is odd; it really does sound like the server used an old version of your post instead of the one you submitted. One of those mysteries not worth solving I suspect (as in, it would take too much of someone's time just to explain things to us :) ).
I had a bit of a surprise this morning though, when I realised where the last chapter of the poem is going to take place. It makes sense, I just hadn't planned it (a bit like the poem itself back in the pre-Corona days. January PC I suppose :) ).

Closing in
“Kittering’s Vigil?” Emma sounds surprised and tinny,
But her voice from the phone is all Red needs.
He stops and calls the cab and gets down upon his knees
To pray he’s closing in and not too late.

Marc said...

Greg - yeah, I had similar thoughts about that post. Oh well, I think I'll manage without knowing the ins and outs of it :)

Ah, a fitting ending location, I think. A happy little accident, it working out this way.

... also, he dang well better get there in time.