The Butterfly Hours Memoir Project: DESK

For 2019 I'm running a year-long series on my blog in which I share my responses to the writing assignment prompts found in THE BUTTERLY HOURS by Patty Dann.

I welcome you to join me, if you like! I've divided the prompts by month, and the plan is to respond to 3 (or so) a week. For some of these I may write poems, for others prose. The important thing is to mine my memory. Who knows where this exploration will lead?

In January I wrote about: apron, bar, basketball, bed, bicycle, birthday, boat, broom, button, cake, car.

Here are February's prompts: chair, chlorine, church, concert, cookbook, couch, dancing, desk, dessert, dining room table, diploma.

DESK

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Today, a poem:

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Desk

memories are dust

stuck in the grooves

of the roll top

dreams hide

in dark cubbies

beside bottle tops,

ticket stubs

and a tiny cat figurine

I plunder the drawers,

find stacks of poems,

stories

written in a voice

that's mine

and not mine –

a thousand scratches

and scars

only deepen

that warm oak glow

- Irene Latham