Writing post #111: CHILDHOOD MEMORIES

Hi Everyone,

This time of year is often replete (and fraught!) with childhood memories from holidays past. For a little levity, please read Stanley' Kunitz’s poem, “Halley’s Comet.”

It starts off like this:

“Miss Murphy in first grade
wrote its name in chalk
across the board and told us
it was roaring down the stormtracks
of the Milky Way at frightful speed
and if it wandered off its course
and smashed into the earth
there’d be no school tomorrow …”

Read the rest of the poem—or listen to Kunitz reading it—here: https://poetryarchive.org/poem/halleys-comet/

YOUR PROMPT: Adapt one of your own holiday childhood memories for work-in-progress, the more absurd and specific the better.

Have fun with this one!

Abrazos,

Cristina