Prompt for Hour Nine

Text Prompt:

Below is a list of ten words. Please pick at least five of them to use in your poem. If you want to use all ten, please do so.

Beet, jacket, tremor, bayou, elbow, lightbulb, cinnamon, bucket, elk, carport

 

Goodbye Joe

 

‘Mummy, what’s a bayou?’

Struggling to get his elbow

into his school jacket sleeve

she said she didn’t know.

 

‘Mummy,’ he said, with the familiar

tremor back in his voice.

‘You said you knew everything.’

She had no choice.

 

Seizing a lightbulb moment,

she led him into the carport

switched on the stereo in the car

‘You’ll find out on the way, sport.’

 

Found what she was looking for

And soon they were singing along

To the Carpenters, mother and son

Jambalaya – what a song.