Early Thoughts

Morning’s breath
clouds the sky before birdsong.
Where are the dreams
that woke me up?
I look for them in my teacup
and find only the fading moon.

Kim M. Russell, 28^th April 2026

It’s Day 28 of NaPoWriMo and today’s optional prompt was inspired by Victoria Chang’s poem, ‘The Lovers’, which is “short and somewhat shocking, bringing us quickly from a near-hallucinatory descriptive statement to a strange sort of question, before ending on the very direct statement of a ‘truth’.” It consists of six lines, three sentences, and a title that Maureen says works for the poem but is only obliquely related to its text.

Our challenge is to write poems that follow the same beats: three sentences, six lines: statement, question, conclusion.