24 (ish) Syllable Poems

Skull

Skull

22 piece
   jigsaw puzzle

an empty white
   brain case

disturbing and
   inhuman

without its
   face mask

Author's note: ▶︎

The human skull is made up of twenty-two fused bones.

Written for the September 2022 round of The Red Wheelbarrow Poetry Contest

Prompt:

1) write a poem with enjambment that stresses compound nouns
2) poem format is eight lines written in couplets. No syllable/line length requirement
3) poem must not use the phrase ‘so much depends on’
4) no punctuation or capitalization

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