Here’s my contribution for Day 6 of the Poem a Day Challenge. It draws from a strange childhood fascination–a small poster on a fence which I could read, but which seemed to make no sense at all. That fascination was, actually, an early manifestation of my interest in poetry–the multiple implications of words and the meanings that lurk among them.
2013 April PAD Challenge: Day 6 | Write a Poem a Day Until May | WritersDigest.com.
Post No Bills
The sign
on the
construction company’s
temporary fence
said “Post no bills.”
I could read
all the words
as I skipped past
and I read it
over and over,
so seemingly
simple, yet holding
so little sense.
My parents
muttered something
about advertisements,
but what did
Brill Cream or Babbo
have to do with
posts or bills?
They must have,
I thought,
misunderstood me
again, and I mulled
what adult secrets could
be hidden so out there
in the open, among
little words.
One Way to Wonder 