Write a persona poem from the perspective of a well known fictional character. You can choose any fictional character but here are a few names to get you thinking in the right direction: Dracula, King Arthur, Red Riding Hood, Katniss Everdeen, etc. . .
Golden shovel inspired by a line from Weldon Kees’s “Five Villanelles”
“We must remain until the roof falls in.”
LIGHTS OUT
The darkness invites us to stretch and dawdle, and we
do, pouring more wine, telling more tales. We must
be tired, but we stretch, pretend otherwise, remain
hunched beside our ebbing campfire, until
at last our yawns can’t be denied, or the
fatigue seeping into muscles. No roof
overhead; no matter, we’re all in.