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Monday Poetry Prompt: Dry Goods

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This week let’s write a dry goods poem. I’d heard that term all my life but never really understood what was a dry good and what wasn’t until researching this prompt. Even though dry goods won’t spoil, post your poem promptly in the comments below.

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About Bartholomew Barker

Bartholomew Barker is an organizer of Living Poetry, a collection of poets in the Triangle region of North Carolina where he has hosted a monthly feedback workshop for more than decade. His first poetry collection, Wednesday Night Regular, written in and about strip clubs, was published in 2013. His second, Milkshakes and Chilidogs, a chapbook of food inspired poetry was served in 2017. He was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2021. Born and raised in Ohio, studied in Chicago, he worked in Connecticut for nearly twenty years before moving to Hillsborough where he lives and writes poetry.

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6 thoughts on “Monday Poetry Prompt: Dry Goods”

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    Posted by crazy4yarn2 | June 9, 2025, 12:34 PM
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  2. Chris Clarke's avatar

    Old doors talk of gossip
    overheard over a 100 years ago
    with creaks and dirt and blood
    the floor answers back
    lessons learned from back in ‘18
    when Roald came back from France
    earlier than his classmates
    whiffs of Naphthalene and Carbon Tet
    tales of White Phosphorus and the harvest
    lingered in the air before the service

    I walked over past the ammo
    (deer season months away)
    fishing nets, onion sets, lobster traps
    toward a rack of old new clothes
    “Might as well have the best.”
    Green and Black, $24.99 on
    the crinkled yellow-brown price tag
    I take this lost remnant of that world
    of our world, of my world
    in my arms, toward to register

    It comes home with me
    and like the doors
    it tells me tales
    in complete silence

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    Posted by Chris Clarke | June 9, 2025, 7:32 PM
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