[stylist] Barbara's response to writing prompt

[Applebutter Hill]

Love it, what a twinkle it has!
Donna

-----Original Message-----
From: stylist [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Barbara
Hammel
Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2014 4:28 PM
To: stylist at nfbnet.org
Subject: [stylist] Barbara's response to writing prompt

I put it as an attachment, but here it is posted below, too.  O, and I saw
mistakes so this version has the corrections and proper line breaks.  And it
is single-spaced, if it turns into double when I send it.

Barbara


    WHAT IS THAT?
  By Barbara Hammel

This morning I awoke to the sound of a squeaking bed, Its very rhythmic
pattern brought images to my head, Of college years, of wedded bliss, of
soaps and hotel stays, I rubbed my eyes, the clock said four,  I laid there
in a haze, Trying hard to remember why I even hear that sound.
It yanked me from a dream of riding the merry-go-round.
Squeak! Squeak! Squeak! Squeak! And then it comes to me, I've heard that
sound quite frequently since he was almost three.
When he is in his "happy place" he's rocking on his head.
I try to close my eyes again and snuggle in my bed.


Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.--Robert Frost