Welcome to “Writober,” a challenge hosted by Maria at Experience Writing.

Today’s chosen prompt:Skeletons. “In poetry, the skeleton of your poem can be its poetic form or shape on the page. It can be the through line of the poem: a mood, a color, a theme, or extended metaphor. It can also be an emotional arc and/or a narrative structure.”

Catching up on these prompts today…bear with me.

Home

I sit in its chest, rib cages
of hardwood floors flexing

through seasons. Breathing
in ways we forget until we remember

“Oh, I am breathing.”

Left to itself, it dissolves like bone
buried in dirt and lime. Until one day

we return to find only fields, dimpled
with mounds under which it lies

arms over chest in silent repose,
unable to scream.