✧ ANNE CARSON’S IF NOT, WINTER PROMPTS !
( FEEL FREE TO CHANGE PRONOUNS AS NEEDED !
❝ someone will remember us. ❞
❝ their heart grew cold, they let their wings down. ❞
❝ you came and i was crazy for you. ❞
❝ you cooled my mind that burned with longing. ❞
❝ shame would not hold down your eyes. ❞
❝ i would not think to touch the sky with two arms. ❞
❝ it will affect your reading experience, if you will allow it. ❞
❝ may you sleep on the breast of your delicate friend. ❞
❝ i want to say something but shame prevents me. ❞
❝ gathering flowers so very delicate a girl. ❞
❝ neither for me honey nor the honey bee. ❞
❝ if you had a desire for good or beautiful things. ❞
❝ your tongue were not concocting some evil to say. ❞
❝ but rather you would speak about what is just. ❞
❝ for we in our youth did these things. ❞
❝ yes many and beautiful things. ❞
❝ you gather a lamb, gather a kid, gather a child to its mother. ❞
❝ brackets imply a free space of imaginal adventure. ❞
❝ that is no reason you should miss the drama. ❞
❝ and in your song most of all she rejoiced. ❞
❝ in fact, she, herself once blamed me.❞
❝ for the man who is beautiful is beautiful to see ❞
❝ the good man at once also beautiful be. ❞
❝ as honey: desire is poured upon your lovely face. ❞
❝ i say i have been a strong lover. painful. ❞
❝ i long and seek after. ❞
❝ i don’t know what to do two states of mind in me. ❞
❝ turn away from those without a crown. ❞
❝ but i am not someone who likes to wound. ❞
❝ nightingale with a voice of longing. ❞
❝ many woven garlands made of flowers around your soft throat. ❞
❝ some men say an army of ships is the most beautiful thing. ❞
❝ when i look at you, even a moment, no speaking is left in me. ❞
❝ oh, it puts the heart in my chest on wings. ❞