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25/30: Cyrée Jarelle Johnson

Today's poem interacts with another text which I love for a 30/30, when it can start to feel like the well is drying up at this point.

Read "Last Best Niche" https://poets.org/poem/last-best-niche


Today I want you to pick a piece of fiction that you resonate with. Use lines from that text to start each stanza of your poem. Feel free to take the line apart or deconstruct it, just start from that source.



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