is to write a self portrait poem through another lens (inspired by Jorie Graham's 'Self Portrait as Daphne and Apollo'). Classes start on Wednesday, poem due Monday, syllabus due this weekend.
All I have is a stanza-ish.
Self Portrait as a Young Boy Fishing
Papa casts like he flicks a cigarette
Off the porch into the pile beneath the bushes,
But I can only imagine my line falling,
like me on the Fletcher Creek Bridge,
knees to forehead, practicing
when to slip beneath the water.
He gives me five tries, for every one of his-
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