The following post for One Shot Wednesday is also my response to the latest Bookstains Poetry Challenge. The challenge is write a poem about Grant Wood’s iconic painting American Gothic. If interested in participating, then click here for details.
Approximately 650 miles from Winesburg, Ohio Much nearer sticks to hospitable care When boring wood lampooned beliefs You may feel free Bury me there
Ulysses & Grant would go home again Iowa forgiving prodigal pride Blond Emily Dickinson stares into oblivion
Poseidon’s prop gripped by father time
Behind them lies someone’s home Spring arresting American plume Sprouting hawthorn of unmentionable kinds Reckoning they did die here too
