“I move my hand and feel a touch
move with me, and when I brush
my own mind across another,
I am with my mother’s mother.”
- Annie Finch, from “Samhain”
The veil between this world and the Otherworld is at its thinnest at this time of year. Write a story or poem or song in which your speaker/character interacts with an ancestor (or ancestors).
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Congrats to everyone who's on Day 11 of National Poetry Month 30 Poems 30 Days! You're all amazing! Keep going! I got prompts if you need 'em.
Today: Reflect back on a specific childhood memory, a moment in which your understanding of the world changed. Go back to that moment and give yourself a magical power. How does the moment change?