Today’s Jim Harrison line is from his poem Return.
“Spring day, too loud for talk
when bones tire of their flesh
and want something better.”
~Harrison
from Return
Had I sweat a lather
crushing you under
my tongue
in an overblown show
of rain butting
her head against
your skull
forcing that
nitroglycerin
headache
Had I broken your
bones into
shards of prismatic
YouandMe
Had I
Instead I was
screeching-owling
at the sky
expecting God to hear
that plaint about
Fair and Not-Fair
© Jilly’s All Rights Reserved
for Day One of 28 Days of Unreason
Everyone is welcome to join in with these 28 Days!
Jilly's 
Perhaps we need to be loving more and complaining less? !!
dwight
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Thanks for stopping by, Dwight!
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I liked that stanza about breaking bones into “shards of prismatic
YouandMe”
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“screeching-owling” to God about fairness! You have brought wording beyond a science… into the alchemist’s lab… the darkened lab of Dr. F… where verb-nouns and noun-verbs creep out into the light. Wonderful!
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Thank you, Charley! I’m guessing you mean Dr. F(rankenstein), but F(reud) also came to mind – works both ways, I think 🙂
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Both had issues relating to… um, parenting. Sort of.
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Haha! How true!
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Well, I like a prompt. Is it OK to join in?
Hope so, because I did!
https://fmmewritespoems.wordpress.com/2018/06/01/spring-days
I particularly liked that final stanza. On re-reading, I realise I’ve written a kind of response to the images you created in my head, or I created from your poem.
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Whoop! So glad you joined in, Sarah 🙂 I’ll be by to read in just a bit.
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It does seem we were on similar wavelengths with this one! I’m in good company 🙂
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I agree with Charley, the imagery is incredibly potent and rich use of language allows the reader to interpret the poem in more ways than one! 💜
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That is the ultimate compliment! One of my goals in writing is that the work is open to multiple interpretations. Thank you!
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I LOVE “screeching-owling.” Especially at the sky.
and “shards of prismatic
YouandMe”
This is going to be quite an adventure! 🙂
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“Screeching-owling! Shards of prismatic YouandMe.” Excellent!
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Thank you!
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Oh Jilly! You ARE a wordsmith! I love the rain butting its head against skull….. and all the other lines. I’m going to check this prompt out!
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Please do, Vivian! I will be running Harrison quotes out each day, so I hope you will join in as the inspiration hits. I’m scheduling the quotes for shortly after midnight so they will be available across the pond by breakfast. June will be fun 🙂
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I’m in! Just done the one for Day 1…. When I post, how do I link to you?
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Hooray! Copy the URL of your post and drop it in a comment. If you copy my URL and put it in the body of your post, a ping back happens…in theory:)
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Got it! Thanks
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And the dove
olive-beaked and preened
settled in the vibrating air—
peace.
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Love the energy and response to the poem, sort of head butting ~ Interesting challenge Jilly ~
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Thank you, Grace! This is year 3 of running this challenge. Love for you to join in 🙂
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The two stanzas juxtaposed create that image of having to put blame somewhere… if not on each other towards a god. Fantastic language.
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Thank you!
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