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Today's Prompt:

#10. Write about something you saw on your walk today.

Today's explanation behind my response:

1) I am cheating. I saw something on my walk yesterday that inspired me to write down a potential poem-title and I wanted to write about. When I saw this prompt on my list this morning I decided to make my idea do double-duty and use it to fulfill a prompt as well as just be a good idea that got me writing. I am cheating because I actually saw this yesterday.

2) Last fall I wrote a series of WITCH poems - 26, or so, in fact. What I saw yesterday reminded me of those poems and seemed like it would be a good addition to that collection, or that it lent well to that character and line of poems. If you are curious, you can read some of my WITCH poems here:

  1) WITCH COLLECTIONS 
  2)  THE WITCH THESE DAYS 
  3) SPELL FOR THE ONE WHOM YOU DESIRE YOU DOESN'T DESIRE YOU 
  4)  THE WITCH'S CAT GETS GROUNDED 

Today's Response (from refugee, of course)

THE WAY TO THE WITCH'S HOUSE

  Her path begins
  by walking under,
  the brachiating arch
  of some old tree with
  hoary, threaded bark
  too portentous not
  to belong on a walk
  to a witch's house,
  some supernatural being.
  She must have trained
  it by magic, as it seems
  too believably natural-grown,
  too easy to look
  into the past and see 
  how each limb was guided
  by patient, mossy hands into
  its current shape -- too much
  of both, of either tale -- 
  to make the simple
  truth of this so given
  haunted growth,
  this witchy, twitchy bower,  
  to otherworldly
  implication.