Wednesday, June 5, 2019

The Butterfly Hours Memoir Project: HUMMING


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?

For links to the prompts I've written on so far this year, please click on The Butterfly Hours tab above. This month's prompts include: hospital, hotel, humming, ice-skating, illness, kitchen table, knife, laundry, library, lunch.

HUMMING

The Sound of Summer is a Hum

It starts with Mama
at her sewing machine,
stitching seams
in summer dresses
for Ms. Judy

moves to the library's
florescent overhead
lights as I sit
on the ABC rug,
reading about horses

slips past the door
from the driveway
as my brothers
circle the go-kart
again and again,
wheels spinning
Gulf coast sugar-sand

before settling
in Granddaddy's garden
where bees swarm
the tomato blossoms
and corn fattens
inside the shuck,
green green green
until finally – soon! –

yellow-kerneled ears
pop out to say,
hello, June!

- Irene Latham

2 comments:

  1. 😍 Love this, Irene! Especially that corn fattening inside the shuck xo

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  2. Ah, it's beautiful, Irene, all those memories connected into a 'hum'.

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