The spark



is seeing:

a big woman eat an ice cream sundae

the round sore
on the tip of my dog's nose
from trying to flip the kennel's latch
that she might run home

my mother
brave hundreds of thirsty mosquitos
and the sweltering Delta heat
to sit
with a glass of wine
and look at the moon
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme X XAXX XAXXXX
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 266
Words 56
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 1, 4, 6

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