"Our prompt for the day (optional as always) takes its cue from our gently odd resources, and asks you to write a poem based on an image from a dream. We don’t always remember our dreams, but images or ideas from them often stick with us for a very long time. I definitely have some nightmares I haven’t been able to forget, but I’ve also witnessed very lovely things in dreams (like snow falling on a flood-lit field bordered by fir trees, as seen through a plate glass window in a very warm and inviting kitchen). Need an example of a poem rooted in dream-based imagery? Try this one by Michael Collier."
Planting Tigers
Seed of ivory claw
Plant in jagged row
Clay soil, clot orange
Iron spade and hoe.
Bury deep as lie
Word to spread plague
Plant field of tigers:
Cultivate rage.
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