Monday, January 25, 2010

What's Real?

Have to do a project on the poet William Carlos Williams [funny name, huh?] and thought I'd try and write something in his style. Key word: 'try'.

alone, wide awake
there's a monster!
under the bed!

wait, it's just a toy,
casting a shad-
ow on the wall

but the fear was real
and the blankets
thin though they are,

offer safety like
that of maybe
fifty soldiers

1 comment:

T.Hodge said...

Erika,
I am familiar with William Carlos Williams. I believe you have accomplished a write-like Williams with Erika mixed in perfectly.