This week’s stop for the National Writing Project’s Write Across America was at the South Coast Writing Project at UC Santa Barbara (California) and the theme was social justice.
I chose an image by photographer Mary Ellen Mark called The Damm Family In Their Car, which was a powerful visual of a family on the edge, and the description with the image mentioned the family’s dog, too, and that dog — Runtley – became the focus of my poem.
(Note: Copyright protections means I could not use the actual image and the dog image here was generated by Adobe Firefly)
Peace (and Support),
Kevin