When the clause caused animosity

When the verse
came to town
with its own entourage:
a noun, a verb, an adjective,
a spare pronoun with a few
conjunctions to mix,
the collective poems of the town
felt threatened by this intrusion.
They labelled the verse a witch
and forming a posse
the collectives seized the verse
tying it to a stake
and on lighting the fire
they chanted.
Burn witch! Burn witch!
Knowing if the verse survived
a witch was true.
The collectives gloriously
returned to poem town
entering their literature homes
dusting the ashes
that covered their pages.

Reviews

[carl]

I think it was a prose in verse clothing or perhaps a verse in prose clothing, hmmmm - hard to tell sometimes which is a witch. Fun read - thanks for the post- carl

[andrew mitchell]

Thank you Carl.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

did the poem float?
then it was a witch...
very clever piece, andrew, but I would not read it in Salem, Mass. if I were you.

[andrew mitchell]

Thank you Jacob.

[andrew mitchell]

Salem! That’s a horror story on its own!