“Inner beauty can fade, too.”
– Sarah Manguso, 300 Arguments
Remind me: the heart’s inner rooms
can contain exquisite beauty, carried within them over
the year’s long haul; can nourish and shelter, too — yet, do still need
tending for it can fade like a
radiant tapestry set too close to the sun’s bright light.
– Steve Peterson
Here I’m playing around with the golden shovel poetry form as inspired by Mary Lee Hahn’s #NationalPoetryMonth project at Poetrepository.
In my case because of the subject matter, I placed the words of honor on the inside of the poem.