Prompt 29, Hour 24: Five Steps To My MatchBox Town.

Prompt 29, Hour 24: Four Steps To My MatchBox Village.

First step:

Have teenage brothers purchase cars.

Have all go out and play.

Each matchbox car is magical.

So let it seems that way.

 

Second step:

Be as young as six years old;

Think cities made of mud.

Let childhood genius take its hold;

Recede Snake River’s flood.

 

Third step::

Skirt around wet fields of grain—

A boon from irrigation.

Small city streets— checkered terrain,

Form by imagination.

 

Fourth step:

Form Adam’s houses out of wet clay—

schools, businesses,  and churches.

Wait for the sun to bake them dry;

daydreams on flowing ditches.

 

Fifth Step:

Time travel back to innocence.

Bring along your children.

Find they’ll  travel other ways;

Their own worlds to pilgrim.

 

 

One thought on “Prompt 29, Hour 24: Five Steps To My MatchBox Town.

  1. I like how this poem ends. You take what would otherwise be seen as a trivial thing and make it have gravity and importance, as well as inaccessibility and “specialness” for lack of a better word. thanks!

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