My Sentence
Dana Levin
—spring wind with its
train of spoons,
kidney-bean shaped
pools, Floridian
humus, cicadas with their
electric appliance hum, cricket
pulse of dusk under
the pixilate gold of the trees, fall’s
finish, snow’s white
afterlife, death’s breath
finishing the monologue Phenomena, The Most Beautiful Girl
you
carved the word because you craved the world—
Prompt
Write a poem that is just one sentence long but doesn’t skimp on sound. Levin uses a lot of consonance, or repeated consonant sounds within words (the n in spring, wind, and spoons and the k/x in cricket, dusk, and pixilate, for example). Try out some consonance in your poem.