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+%title Poetry challenges
+
+## July 1, 2024 — No verbs
+
+'''
+A road trip. A dome of stress within the car,
+and golden fields without.
+A hotel room. Quiet, dark, cold against the heat,
+floor to ceiling blackout curtains.
+Riverbend ponds. A lace of trails and lakes,
+more than enough reflections of sunsets.
+A return drive. Twice the stress, golden fields again,
+all two days earlier than expected.
+
+A husband (supposedly)
+in a recliner (his)
+in the living room (ours?)
+in a house (mortgage: $3,106 a month).
+
+"Concert tomorrow."
+Lazy. Flat affect. Quotidian.
+
+Estimated time of return:
+Sunday morning; the next day.
+
+Monday. Silence.
+Lots of friends down there.
+
+Tuesday. Silence.
+Worried...
+
+Wednesday phone call: "Hey." Eloquent.
+Estimated time of return: never.
+
+A locked door. The key — a hex wrench, black, slender —
+now a decoration of junk drawers.
+A bedroom. An echoing expanse of empty walls,
+and golden fields of bare carpet.
+A wife. Quiet, dark, cold against the heat, hidden behind 
+floor to ceiling blackout curtains.
+'''