This month Women Writing for (a) Change-Bloomington poets are participating in National Poetry Writing Month.  Every day we will offer up a new  poem by a writer in our community.  Check back after 6:00pm for the Prompt of the Day and the selected resulting poem.

Day 13 Write a poem about something mysterious and spooky, about something that is mysterious and spooky in a bad way (like a witch), or mysterious and spooky in a good way (possibly also like a witch? It depends on the witch, I guess!) Or just the everyday, mysterious, spooky quality of being alive.

Mysterious by Beth Lodge-Rigal

How a body keeps breathing
As the brain dies
Watery kelp dance
wavering arms reaching
Reaching for sunlight
Visible through the murk
Of your drowning
I do not understand
Or crave
Would never choose
This
Ever
Yet it seems sometimes
We are asked
To trawl the lagoon
Witness without
Diving in
To save
This most brutal
Beautiful
Moment
Find the word yes
In the depths of
An ocean of
No