June Third Sunday Write for Writers Guild Posted in June

Well, it’s almost July but, yes, this month’s Bloomington Writers Guild 3rd Sunday Write (cf. June 10, et al.) is actually being posted in June. The prompts for this month were 1. On the longest day I. . . ., 2. Use the following words in your piece (in any order) Blue, Shadows, Linger, Lilies, Turn, Horizon, Path, and 3. to comment on a linked interview with Tracy K. Smith on enslavement, freedom, and poetry. My selection was number 2, but with an understanding that forms of words (e.g. “turned” for “turn”) would be okay too.

Also that this was being written (still is!) Tuesday, June 28, with the TV news including details on the U.S. House Committee hearings on January 6 in the background. Could that possibly have influenced what I then wrote?

THE PRESIDENT’S LUNCH

Had it not been for the partition the path it took would have reached the horizon, ketchup spewing through blue shadows, the place the White House but one wall now turned red. Fear and anger lingered. “The President’s upset,” one staffer explained. The day, January 6, 2021, a plot (it now seems) thwarted, the life of a republic, the United States, at least for today saved.

No need yet for lilies.