Sparking Imagination

            Here is another poem inspired by Mary Lee Hahn at A Year of Reading, and her wonderful April posts/poems.  Please visit!  

             Don't forget to look to the right to see whose turn it is to add a line to the 2nd Annual Progressive Poem, the idea created by Irene Latham at Live Your Poem.  Then head over to see how it's going!

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             Here is my poem written in response to the antique map:

In My Mind’s Eye

This older map

of straight lines

hides the crooked stories

of the past:

in the houses

down the street,

next door,

across the way,

in the alley,

catty-cornered,

in the park,

third floor,

a street away,

at the second stop sign,

along the river,

just out of town.

I just need to look

and imagine.

© Linda Baie