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Hello, friends and poets! Melissa here from Mom With a Blog bringing you today’s Prosery prompt.

What is Prosery? A very short piece of prose or flash fiction that tells a story with a beginning, a middle, and an end. It can be any genre you choose, but it does have a limit of 144 words. Somewhere within your story, you must include given lines without changing word order or adding any words. You may add or change punctuation.

Today, I have chosen a poem from the book Call & Response 3: Poets and Artists in Dialogue (Grosse Pointe Congregational Church Arts Ministry, 2019). It was sent to me by a very good friend, Mary Stebbins-Taitt, who contributes frequently to Collaborature. Thank you again, Mary!

Image: Grace Pointe Congregational Church Arts Ministry

For today’s Prosery prompt, I have chosen a poem inspired by the above painting, Umbrella Sky, done by artist Rocco Pisto. The painting is done in watercolor and measures 30” x 24”. The poem is titled “Oh, Umbrellas,” written by Jeffrey Hermann.

Click on image to enlarge poem.
Oh, Umbrellas

are what we’ll miss
most in heaven—
your hair dry, your shoes
in a warm June pour

I can carry the math
it takes to make a dome
in a small coat pocket—

every prayer
under the cupola
darkening the sky
by a shade

Oh ingenuities—
the rods and riders
the clack of the latch

What will I do there
without my hands upon
your summer face?

What will I do without
what I’ll miss most—

your hair turning stormy
as you cross
the flooding avenue

For your prompt today, I’d like you to use the following lines in your Prosery:

“What will I do there
without my hands upon
your summer face?”

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