In Your Own Words: ‘Bolt’

Those of us writing through Dave Malone’s Tornado Drill for my 3-week course In Your Own Words are sharing poems.

Here’s mine for session 10, because I realized the word “grave” can be a noun, an adjective, and a verb. Huzzah!

grave
[grAv]
noun: a burial place
adjective: significantly serious
verb: to carve or cut

As in: All afternoon I plot a meeting,
script words atrocious enough
to send you to your grave.

As in: All morning I picture your hands
on my strings, make believe
this attraction isn’t so grave.

As in: All night, with no word, no text,
no picture from you, I grave
your name into my palm, so gently.

–Megan Willome