toes wild with tired 🦶

on the way to the grocery store burning and touching

Omg!! We have our first poem from Crista Siglin: “Here's my response to the toe prompt”. 🦶

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toes wild with tired

Toe Prompt ✏️

1. Pay attention to your toes while walking through the grocery store

2. Take note of their opinions as you peruse the aisles of produce

3. Write their dialogue with one another

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Writing Contest 📓🎓

Respond to any of Crista’s writing prompts for the duration of their “Poetry School” takeover for a chance to:

• Win a scholarship to the infamous “Poetry As_A Workshop” (valued at 150 EUR)

• Get published on Poetry Trapper Keeper!

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Extra Credit 🤓

here are some more Crista-prompts you can use this week to enter the writing contest:

MEMORY TELEPHONE I 🧠☎️

1. Ask a friend to go on a walk with you. 

2. Go on a walk with your friend. While walking, whisper things that you notice to one another. 

3. When you get home, make a poem with anything that you can remember of what you both whispered. 

MEMORY TELEPHONE II 🌞💌

1. When you wake up, write yourself a letter. 

2. Go about your day. 

3. At the end of the day, try to replicate the letter you wrote at the beginning of the day, without looking at it. 

4. After reviewing the 2 letters, write about a poem inspired by the differences and/or commonalities between the 2. 

Option 2: You can combine the 2 letters to create a synthesized letter poem to yourself. 

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Share📚

Your prompt responses with us in the Substack comments or tag us on instagram!! We swear, we wont’ copy your homework. We just want to hang your poems on our fridge, like the proud parents we are.