I fluff & fold away
winter blankets & thick socks
And put to wash my clothes
on cold water spin cycle
The sun spreads marmalade
hues on garden of budding greens
On the clotheslines
I hang
flowering apostrophes & metaphors
and pin the conjugated verbs
with brown clips
I flick away
the dewdrops of commas
stuck on my shirts
& shake out the dirt
of hypenated syllabic words
hiding in my coat pockets
Later on, I will
pluck them & toss them all in the
laundry basket
unsorted & missing pairs & sun wrinkled
smell of maple syrup
in the spring air
Posted for dVerse Poets pub- Poetics - Put Your Words in a Spin cycle - Hosted by De Jackson.
This is gorgeously worded, Grace! I am especially blown away by; "I flick away the dewdrops of commas stuck on my shirts & shake out the dirt of hypenated syllabic words
ReplyDeletehiding in my coat pockets."💝💝
Oh I love the washing up of those winter clothes, how marvelous it must be to come away with all those shining syllables and show it to the marmalade sky
ReplyDeleteI quite enjoy the annual spring clean, the washing and storing of winter clothes and blankets, and the retrieval of lighter items, all ready for the sun to spread ‘marmalade hues on garden of budding greens’. I love how your poem shifts to words and punctuation pegged to the washing line and then tossed in the basket – laundering poetry!
ReplyDeleteOH! The spill of these words takes my breath away, Grace:
ReplyDelete"I hang
flowering apostrophes & metaphors
and pin the conjugated verbs
with brown clips
I flick away
the dewdrops of commas"
SO good.
There is a lovely freshness to clothes hung on the line that you can't get by throwing them into the dryer. I like the way you likened laundry to words.
ReplyDeleteJust lovely, Grace.
ReplyDeleteThis is the kind of laundry even I could enjoy! All those poetic devices, arrayed to perfection in the spring sunshine :-)
ReplyDeleteHow gorgeous and creative:
ReplyDelete“The sun spreads marmalade“
“I hang flowering apostrophes”
A standing ovation for this one, so cleverly spinning and shaking the tools of the poet. Well done!
ReplyDeleteIt's all good, Grace, but the two middle stanzas are BLAMMO good! Thanks!
ReplyDeleteI love the way this ended Grace- beautiful.
ReplyDeleteGrace this is so wonderfully written
ReplyDelete"I hang
flowering apostrophes & metaphors
and pin the conjugated verbs
with brown clips "
Fabulous! ☺️
Beautifully crafted and ditto to all of the above.
ReplyDeleteA fair routine with the expected ending for the menfolk to savour1 Love the wonderful woodcraft treatment, Grace!
ReplyDeleteHank
I don't even know where to start with this--a new take on spring, on the writing process, and on the universal in the mundane. Brilliant.
ReplyDeleteI love this very oh so original work of art!
ReplyDeleteThis is both beautiful and fun--an ode to spring and poetry. I really love this!
ReplyDeleteThis is a unique sun-shiny poem. Love it, Grace!
ReplyDeleteI like your metaphors mixed in with your laundry. Seems like writing poetry and editing is like doing the laundry, getting the lines clean an sharp and washing out the extras.
ReplyDeleteSo creative! I love how you linked it to writing.
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