Sara gave us this month’s challenge, which was to write a French Dizain, a poem with a funky rhyme scheme, ten lines, and ten syllables per line — a square!
This made me think of my birthday — April 4th — 4/4.
I’ve always loved the date but almost aspirationally since it’s rather too orderly for me.
Thus, my dizain.
Enjoy…
Myself as Square: A Dizain Self-Portrait
To be born day four of month four, steady
like a kitchen table, solid and square
like the root, multiplying already
into parsed out parts, chromosomal pairs,
orderly goodness and everyday prayers.
But then I turned to fire – giant, hot –
I burned down all the systems I’d been taught.
No longer easily divisible
nor doused, what random figure had I wrought?
Mad entropy — it’s me made visible!
Please enjoy the other dizains here:
Tricia
Tanita
Sara
Rebecca
Andi, Laura and Kelly are taking a month off but will be back in June!
And our beloved Jama is hosting Poetry Friday at Alphabet Soup, so go see her for poems galore!
