it will become a thing of utility
again, invisible except when needed;
I’ll put it back together tomorrow
you wonder what on earth I’m thinking, tired
of making halfway, but now I’ve started
I ask everyone who passes if it looks good
(sand, wipe, consider; the first brushstroke
is not always the moment of truth
a new can of paint better than a blank canvas)
the prep is the hardest and most boring
part; at least no tools are needed
for disassembly
having started on a winter’s need for change
I had the blank hours and this idea
overconfident of vision
NaPoWriMo Day 28! Telling a story in reverse.
Graceful Press Poetry 
You did this well! I’m not sure about this prompt. 🙂
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I wasn’t either, and I’m still not, haha. I might try again later with a real “once upon a time” kind of story. I kind of like the disjointed feel of going in reverse. But I’m the kind of person who frequently reads ahead to the end of a book (!) You know, because I can’t stand the suspense.
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Oh no–you really do that? Yikes! 🙂
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Yes, but I’m trying to reform…reading ebooks has helped a lot, harder to flip through. 🙂
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🙂
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I do that too. Exactly. I can’t stand the suspense, I must know. We can form a club and read the books backward!
As for your poem, I liked that I could read it forward and backward. And a s always I really enjoy your use of language.
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Thanks, Claudia. And yes to the club! There may be more of us than we think!
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Beautifully written. I like this style.
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Thank you. It was a fun prompt. It could mimic the jumbled way the brain sometimes remember things. Or the way we might start to tell a story, then have to back up to something that happened earlier.
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You’re right, maybe that naturalness is its appeal.
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Well I’ve been there. Forwards and backwards. (K)
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😀
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This: “I had the blank hours and this idea
overconfident of vision” is just great. ***
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Thank you. It’s pretty much always true. 🙂
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I love those last two lines as well! And that it works in both directions – I read it both ways! I agree, too, with your earlier comment that the jumbled order mimics the way our brains take apart a thought or story. I enjoyed reading it as both literal steps in a building project but also in personal development – or poem writing!
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Oh, I don’t know ANYbody who has been ‘overconfident of vision’ and had to explain it. No one at all.
As other readers have pointed out, the disjointed phrasing here makes the poem work well — almost a feeling of making excuses and backing you into a corner … very nice.
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