Rural Oklahoma Museum of Poetry
Poetry of the People
I was sweeping in the museum today and noticed this post-it note folded up and sticking out the bottom of the Secret Box.
This wooden box is in the Secret Corner of the museum. A very comfortable chair sits in the corner. It is surrounded by poetry and secrets that people have made un-secrets. Continue reading “Happier Ignorant”
In the museum, there is a place called the Secret Corner. There are poems about secrets and a book of secret poetry. There is a large comfy chair covered in red velvet there, and you need to sit in it and just look around and think and then write if you want to. There are pictures and drawings and sayings all around. There is also a box for secrets.
Continue reading “Clearing Out the Secrets”
It was not even ten o’clock,
And the coyotes called to one another
In the cow pasture. I told you
About it. I told you because you say
You are a werewolf,
Your breath hinting of the moon, Continue reading “Unopened”
I found this wooden box in a yard sale. It is perfect for secrets. You can put one in and leave it for someone else to discover. You can take one out and read someone else’s secret. You can put their secret back or you can carry it with you into the world. Continue reading “The Power of a Secret”
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