NaPoWriMo Day #1

The Shuffle Poem:

1. Put your iPod or iTunes (or other mp3 player) on shuffle. (If you don’t have a music player that shuffles, you can choose CD or album titles at random from your collection by writing several titles down on little slips of paper … works the same way.)
2. Write down the first five titles that come up. No cheating allowed!
3. Use all five titles to draft a new poem. They have to be used intact — you can interrupt them with punctuation, but you may not remove or change words.

  I think i’m a mother, she whispered
to the girl with the pancake eyes,
the one who stole popsicles
from the neighborhood store.

Of course, you silly woman, the
girl replied. I said I'd wait for you.
They stood together swallowing silence
holding hands beneath a willow tree.

You are an ode to divorce, she said
baffled by the girl's beauty. On the fire
place at home stands her time line
captured in frilled shots and bobby socks.

You left, the girl said, declared your life
a jubilee while I was here waiting.
remembering. banded by the promise
that one day you would indeed return.