Today’s Red Wheelbarrow:

I have no idea why, but trust me, this is a good one: The Letter X.

The daily Red Wheelbarrow stimulus is a prompt for making something real out of a poke, a needle, a red wheelbarrow in the rain, something that gets you to start typing, using your writing muscles in ways unusual or usual or simply simple. Get you going.

You may use the Red Wheelbarrow stimulus as you wish. I do not hold you accountable for it, nor do I take any credit for you writing or not writing that you should or would or may or can derive from it.

I would ask that if you write a poem (or novel or grocery list or help manual) using said stimulus, and if you post your work to the inter-webs, that you do your best to link back here, not because we want to flatter ourselves, but because it would be cool, and because maybe if we manage to stimulate you, we could also stimulate your cousin Bess, and that would also be cool.

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The Red Wheelbarrow

William Carlos Williams

so much depends
upon

a red wheel
barrow

glazed with rain
water

beside the white
chickens.

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