Sammi Cox Weekend writing prompt #297 “key”
Sammi Cox Weekend Writing Prompt #297
“Key”
By Amelia Michelle Nicol
2.4.23
The places a key could hide
the doorways we’re used to
These sunlit contingent corners of frames
dropping something in the dark or fumbling
for the right shape, these fitting
Weights and counter-intuitive measures
maps left in boxes labeled for modem
symbols used any way and never broken
anything, anytime fitting or only these
The banging and beating hammers
stickers and bridal tape
composing measures of rhythm
to signatures hidden lines
And Or Theory 