Erica Johnson of Arkansas is our host today for the 17th day of #VerseLove. You can read her full prompt here as she inspires us to write Echoes from the Past.
Erica explains her process of writing an echo sonnet:
As I told my students, don’t worry too much about the traditional sonnet structure; focus instead on keeping it to a brief conversation of 14 lines between yourself and an “echo” of your choice.
I’ve been down and out with vertigo this week, so the echoes have been loud in between the world spinning.
##!@ ##@* Vertigo Meadows
Green grasses sway and bend and spin (like wind!)
look less like blades, way more like monster fur (sure!)
I’m praying for this vertigo to end (when???)
It’s hard to think when all the world’s a blur (duhrrr!)
Who’s Epley? I get sick from his maneuver (a mover!)
Oh, wait! I jerk my head ~ear crystals shatter (scatter!)
This could be true – a vertigo improver (a soother!)
Just keep a barf bag close so things don’t splatter (it matters!)
Even chirping birds sing sideways songs (gongs)
and baby bunnies loop like Ferris wheels (banana peels)
I need this meadow back how it belongs (it’s all wrong)
my countryside set back on even keels (not these feels)
Royal Fortress Meadows sing their woe (echo)
This dizzy/jacked-up/whirling Vertigo ($h1t Sh*w)
Common Threads 
Kim,
I’m so sorry your vertigo won’t go away. I know it’s causing pain and anxiety, but like the true artist you are, you’ve created a poem that captures the experience. I particularly love the concluding line and echo. It sums up and calls out Vertigo. I hope tomorrow finds you well, feeling swell.
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Thank you, Glenda! For the first time ever, it hung on for more than a day and started in the middle of one. You are always so kind to text or comment and check on me!
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