February Challenge Winner

Congratulations to Marcia J. Pradzinski, winner of the February Poetry Challenge.


The Red Flannel Shirt
After William Carlos Williams

so much depends
upon

the red flannel
shirt

iced in moon
light

beside the empty
bed

~ Marcia J. Pradzinski

Copyright to this poem belongs to its author.

The images are interesting. We can see that red flannel shirt in moonlight, and the empty bed. Yet the poem is a bit mysterious; there are a number of possible explanations for the emptiness of the bed. In addition, it is a word-count poem, as is Williams’ “The Red Wheelbarrow.”Both “The Red Wheelbarrow” and “The Red Flannel Shirt” are written with three words in the first line of each stanza and one word in the second line.

Thanks to Barbara Larsen for serving as consulting judge.

Watch for a new challenge on March 1.


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