Imagine that the events of a given day in your life have, many years in the future, become a mythological story. Write a poem in the voice of a speaker who is telling the story. Consider who the speaker is and why they engage with this particular mythology.

Editor’s note: try this prompt as a prose poem! And if the lines call out to you, lineate instead.

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Jennifer A Sutherland is a poet, essayist, and attorney in Baltimore. She is the author of Bullet Points (River River Books, 2023) and House of Myth and Necessity (River River Books, 2026). Her work has appeared in Birmingham Poetry Review, Hopkins Review, Best New Poets, Denver Quarterly, Cagibi, EPOCH, and elsewhere.