Progressive Poem Starts Here

I can't believe it is April 1 already! And that means it is the first day of the Progressive Poem. Irene Latham who began this poem project back in 2012, has handed it over to Margaret Simon to organize. I am so grateful to both Irene and Margaret for this wonderful April collaboration to kick of National Poetry Month. Each day in April a different poet will add a line to this poem begun here today. No one knows where it will go or how it will get there, but it always gets there beautifully! I wanted senses or movement in my line to begin this journey. So I scribbled down a number of potential lines to start us off. And then I came up with an idea for getting the ball rolling… I selected TWO of my lines. We will only USE ONE of them, but let’s let the SECOND PERSON DECIDE which of my two lines they will use. That second person just happens to be Irene Latham! So Irene will have the opportunity to decide which line speaks to her more, and then write the nex