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Today's poem or short story prompt is the word "fallen".
verb
1.
adjective
2.
having dropped or come down from a higher place, from an upright position, or from a higher level, degree, amount, quality, value, number, etc.
3.
on the ground; prostrate; down flat: Exhausted, the racers lay fallen by the road.
4.
degraded or immoral.
5.
(of a woman) having lost her chastity.
6.
overthrown, destroyed, or conquered: a fallen city.
In The Rain
ReplyDeletethey stand
in the rain
motionless
nineteen of them
stainless steel
each over seven feet tall
watching for something
they will watch forever
we stand there
in the rain
three of us
flesh and blood
and freedom
it's cold so we go back to the car
because we can
duty done, airplanes and paperwork
brought at least one of them
back to Detroit
to do what he could
for the neighborhood kids
making art with clay and punch cards
and building a robot (shhh, don't tell,
it's just a refrigerator box
painted silver)
later, he would buy a coffin
to scare the trick-or-treaters
and an amplifier from Sears
so I could be heard
over the drums
he never talked about it,
my dad,
not that I remember.
now, 54,246 bodies
and 60-some later,
we hear noises and see shadows
and look around
wearily
for new answers
to very, very old questions
The Average precipitation
in depth (mm per year)
was 1054
in 2009
it's still raining
- Mike Fedel
May, 2013