For today’s prompt from Jeremy Langrish take an image from another poem and use it to create a narrative for a new poem. For this poem Jeremy started with the line: ‘dancing in the beam were motes of dust’.
Domesticity
I thought I’d woken:
there was a spotlight
illuminating a pizza.
There was a-chewing and a-swallowing,
sustenance with a downward trajectory,
and an outward trajectory,
to skin, which was a-flaking and a-flying.
You were there too,
and dancing in the beam
were motes of dust –
us – mingled, settled, contented.
The next day, you wiped us both away.
Jeremy Langrish
Jeremy Langrish is a graduate (2016) of the ‘Writing Poetry’ MA course offered by the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne / Poetry School collaboration. Over the last few years he has self-published several poetry collections (Jeremy Langrish | Lulu ), and his poems have appeared in numerous anthologies. However, for some 15 years his favoured mode of publication is stage ( he was part of a
collaborative duo called ‘Ambigram’), and ‘Open Mics’. This enables him to describe himself as ‘an
Itinerant Poet’. He lives in in Maidstone, Kent, home for the last fortyish years from where he
schemes how to rebel to avoid extinction.
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