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Note: Don’t forget to tune in on Thursday, 14th September and on Saturday, 16th for Open Link LIVE! Bjorn will be our host, which will make for a memorable evening of camaraderie, drinks and of course, poetry reading!

Hello dVerse Poets, this is Sanaa (aka adashofsunny) welcoming you to another round of Prosery where we ask you to write a very short piece of prose that tells a story, with a beginning, a middle and an end, in any genre of your choice.

Since it is a kind of Flash Fiction, we here at the pub have a limit of 144 words. What’s special about Prosery is that we give you a complete line from a poem, which must be included somewhere in your story, that is, within the word limit. The prose can either be flash fiction, nonfiction, or creative nonfiction, but it must be prose! Not prose poetry and not a poem.

You may change punctuation but please bear in mind that you are not allowed to insert words in between parts of the quotation.

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Picture courtesy: Sunflowers by Monika Grabkowska, Unsplash 

Isabel Duarte-Gray is the author of Even Shorn, her first book of poems through which she introduces a new and haunting polyvocal poetics of blood ties, oral equivalent of Literature, rurality, dread, and loss.

She was born in Oakland, California and raised in Kuttawa, Kentucky. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate at Harvard University. Her poems have appeared in The Colorado Review, Bat City Review, The South Carolina Review, December magazine etc. When I stumbled upon her poem, I was instantly blown away by the use of language and powerful emotions.

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Picture courtesy: Fogged window showing two people sitting, by Jack Finnigan, Unsplash.

This evening I would like you to write a Prose piece which includes the line:

“To be pretty for you I have dropped two seeds of turnsole in the dark of both eyes.” from the poem “Garden.”

Please also include the dVerse link in your published piece.

Here’s how to take part in the Prosery Prompt:

  • Write a piece of flash fiction or other prose up of up to or exactly 144 words,
  • Including the given line from the poem.
  • Post your Prosery piece on your blog and link back to this post.
  • Place the link to your actual post (not your blog url) on the Mister Linky page.
  • Don’t forget to check the little box to accept use/privacy policy.
  • Please visit other blogs and comment on their posts!