Today’s
prompt asked us to check our news sources for inspiration. Choose a headline, phrase, line or the story
itself and craft it into the framework of a poem. A headline that caught my eye
was in the left-over Sunday Bakersfield Californian: ‘FESS UP: WE LOVE TO PLAY
DRESS UP”
This took me back more than 40 years to the days when we lived in a house with a basement and kept a dress-up box for my daughters.
The
Dress-Up Box
The cardboard dress-up
box
A prized possession
Sat in the basement
Of our Ann Arbor home
Costumes overflowed
like run-off from the rains
Discarded
dresses
Hand-me-down
hats
Plenty
of purses
Once-
shiny hoes
Scarves
and jewels galore accessorized it all
Two creative sisters
Matched imaginations
Concocting combinations
Befitting the characters
and personas
They dramatically
assumed
playing it to the hilt
