What wasn’t:
Deliverance
Baptismal
Secular Miracle
A Happy Childhood
A Drowning Scene
What was:
A Burning
Resuscitation
Conversion
A Sanctuary
The Other Side of Drowning
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Prompt courtesy of Greg Santos on Found Poetry Review. Greg suggested several prompts and I settled on a Table of Contents poem which ended up a list poem. My source:
The Chronology of Water, Yuknavich, Lidia, Hawthorne Books, 2011.
Btw, this is an astounding book. I wrote about it here