NPM 2019 Day 13: Prefix Poem

Long ago I read a post at the blog How A Poem Happens. In it, poet Idra Novey shared her poem Trans and described its creation. In the poem she used the prefix trans- as the title of her poem and created sections that begin -late, -gress, -mogrify, -form, and -scend. 

I'm quite taken with this idea and have tried writing in this form a number of times. Today I'm sharing a prefix poem of my own.

Home

-town
Just a dot
on the map
I once claimed
Upstate NY
but that means
something different
in the five boroughs
now western NY
is mine

-grown
Like summer corn
I grew straight
and tall here
wandering  fields
catching snakes and fireflies
loving the freedom of pedaling
fast and rolling away from
newly fertilized fields

-sick
Nearly twenty-five years
in the south
and I’m still a
puzzle missing pieces

-coming
Mom still waits
for me
I’ve worn the roads
from here to there
and back again
wondering which trip
will be my last

-less
And then what will I do?

Poem ©Tricia Stohr-Hunt, 2019. All rights reserved.


Happy Saturday all. See you tomorrow for another original poem.