Without mentioning the state by name, and without using any details that would identify the state to the average reader, write a poem about an imaginary trip to a U.S. state that you have never visited.
If you choose Texas for example, you may not specifically mention the Alamo in your poem. However, you could mention Roman Catholic mission/fortress compounds of the 19th century (not specifically the Alamo), the Gulf of Mexico (not limited to Texas) or your Aunt Mary (presumably unknown to the average reader) from Houston (though you may not mention Houston itself).
"the mainland"
ReplyDeletea land of great wildness
and of great beasts
seemingly uninhabitable
yet colonized by a succession
of super powers, wishing only
to reap the rewards of its
natural resources
supposed ancient walkway-
a springtime isthmus
between Ice Ages
now cut off, leading to
the peopleing of a
virginal "New World"
being an exclave to political
contigousness promotes
independence and a
pull yourself up
by your bootstraps
self-assuredness
"great country" of a state
it is "the object
towards which the action
of the sea is directed"