#napowrimo2022, day 18: Taking inspiration from Faisal Mohyuddin’s Five Answers to The Same Question, ‘write your own poem that provides five answers to the same question – without ever specifically identifying the question that is being answered.’
Five answers to the same question
after Faisal Mohyuddin
1.
Sometimes, a crow
is what it takes.
2.
I pick up a leaf,
carry it
all the way home.
There is a line where
leaf turns into skeleton.
On facebook,
twenty-eight people respond.
3.
There are many
kinds of silence:
4.
Today I have loved
a sentence in a poem
by Layli Long Soldier: When
I write comma I come closer
to people I want to know comma
to the language I want to speak.
5.
Would you like a cup of tea?
Beautiful!
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