The Mar 2025 workshop run by Julie Stevens included an exercise on writing an abstract poem about an inanimate object. An example poem was read, Tea Bag by Jan Wagner (Self-Portrait with a Swarm of Bees, Arc Publications 2014). We then had a choice of objects to write about and I chose a Domino. I then tried to write in the same style and pattern.

Bold and individually unique

Harmoniously coordinated, in unison

Home is an overcrowded box

We live mainly in darkness

Seemingly abandoned and forgotten

Taking centre stage when released for our turn