28: Evidence of Life

Authors

Michael Khandelwal

Website

https://the-muse.org/teachers/user/michael/

Publication Date

4-28-2022

Document Type

Poetry Prompt

Poetry Prompt

Go to a place inside your home—or a place outside but near your home—where you don’t normally linger. Perhaps it’s near your circuit breaker box in the garage or the baseboard near a hall closet; or next to your heat pump outside or that grey-green utility box near the sidewalk. What do you see there? Is there an empty spider’s web? A single stem popping up through the concrete?

Why did the spider leave? What’s it like being a stem surrounded by concrete? Write some active, image-filled lines that delve into the evidence of life in this place. This could even be a fun persona experiment.

Comments

Michael Khandelwal is the Executive Director of The Muse Writers Center.

Repository Citation

Khandelwal, Michael, "28: Evidence of Life" (2022). National Poetry Month 2022: Poetry Prompts. 37.
https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/poetryspotlight-apr2022/37