Carrie's prompt tonight was a guess-the-celebrity prompt. Write a short piece and guess to whom the piece refers. Here's mine:
Like a fading vinyl ad
Peeling to a clean glass mirror
Catching all the ghosts downtown
His shadow's lean and slick
Glasses, blue jeans--and something
Rasping like asphalt, rotating,
Flashing like a holy wheel
Limning boys like your dad
In the once upon a school day
He ascends
Cold fire on the wing
Silhouette
Black as glass frames
He's the boy a decade dreams
Before it startles awake.
So...there's not that many clues in the poem and I'm pretty sure the blue jeans are a misdirection, but I was thinking of Buddy Holly tonight. At least, about the way that people shift and change and the way boys can sometimes be fragile; how they can seem younger than they are when new experiences scrape the rust off your own memories of years past. Anyway, that's tonight and now I'm off to sit with the pup who's not too fond of thunder.
-- Chrissa
"He's the boy a decade dreams before it startles awake." Such a wonderful closing line for this Chrissa! This really does have a 50's feel to it. The big clue for me was the black as glass frames. I could see him on the stage.
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