Beyond the Glass Series—1

Accessory to a book...

We love to photograph books with accessories nearby. How about you?

Sometimes you might want to “accessorize” a book with images you can’t actually place near your chosen book. That’s where poems can make it fun (and possible).

Prompt: Accessorize

Write a poem that gives your chosen book some accessories.

• How about Jupiter or Mars?

• Or maybe the Nile River?

• Maybe your book would like to wear a suit from Saks Fifth Avenue.

• Or perhaps it would like to go back in time and be found with Josephine’s pearls.

Whatever you want to put by your book—or under or over it—you can make it happen in a poem!

Sample Poem

Our sample poem is for a collection we’re so happy to welcome into the world. From Finishing Line Press, it’s a work by Michelle Ortega. And? Beyond the Glass makes a small showing in the poem! (There’s also an extra surprise for

Pieces of Light, by Dheepa

.)

The Photo Shoot for
When You Ask Me, “Why Paris?”

Of course the Eiffel Tower,
must accessorize you
but the question is

over
or
under?

And if we could find
Remy, perhaps
he could pose

with Despereaux
(who is right now hiding
in a poem
from Beyond the Glass!).

But wait,
there’s also
108

to consider,
in which one
wonders

if it’s a mother
or a daughter

who’s trying to save
the world.

That’s what you
did, I believe—

save the world,
a world,

of a mother
and a daughter

before
you were even
born.