Before we get to our final prompt, we circle back to Cryptids. Write an ode to a cryptid of your choice. A good example of the form is Carrie Etter’s “Ode to my Leopard-Print Coat”.
Ode To A Barghest
Here at Auden's folly and hearing your song of mourning in my ears; ominous and sweet like summer wine as a jazz band plays the gathered masses into the church to fill pews like so many wraiths and still I hear the howl and call of your voice. Out of the corner of my eye, I see you; like a shadow passing with embers for eyes burning in the darkness as you move past. I follow behind you - lost in the pack you lead, longing to know what it is to howl. To be the omen people fear when we only come to sing a soul to rest.
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