From the 2023 Poetry Marathon

Prompt for Hour Twelve

Text Prompt

Closets are a big deal inside a house, but also metaphorically. One can be in the closet, or come out of it, for example, But they are also places of safety and joy for small children, or where a monster is lurking, depending on the small child, and/or time of day.

There are very few poems about closets, but this is your chance to write one about the closet, metaphorical or physical or both.

Image Prompt

Mandala drawn by Vidya Shankar (this is the full image that we ended up using for the cover of the 2022 Poetry Marathon Anthology)