I wake up in the morning wondering what I will write as my poem of the day for April’s National Poetry Month. Today’s #verselove prompt was all about letters.

It didn’t take me long to decide that I would write about SLO–especially when I snapped this mural (and cow) on my rainy day downtown exploration. (Do you know that SLO has the tiniest art museum? “Snug” but soooo good!). Anyway, in addition to knowing I would write about these letters, I needed something more. I needed some kind of constraint to structure my thinking and my poem. I decided on an Etheree…a poem that begins with 1 syllable and builds to 10 (or you can go the other way from 10 to 1).

Here it is:

In Three Letters

SLO

Letters

Iconic

Small town wordplay

How SLO can you go?

Plastered on walls/billboards

Imagine the possible

Puns, playful allusions, bad jokes

Alphabetic marketing reminds

This is the best place in the world to be