So many comely eggs in a line
good eggs, bad eggs, duck blue, powder pink
I used to be duck egg blue but now
I’m hollow and full at the same time.
Such hollow echoes it makes when you
crack all the eggs to make a perfect
cheesecake. It’s always far from perfect
but that’s half the fun of it. It tastes
like the other half of fun you were
missing. But the season for blue eggs
is over. Now the season arrives
for hatchlings to become. We used to
be hatchlings once. Now we’ve become like
so many comely eggs in a line.
© N Nazir 2022
NaPoWriMo Prompt: Today, I’d like to challenge you to write a “duplex.” A “duplex” is a variation on the sonnet, developed by the poet Jericho Brown. Here’s one of his first “Duplex” poems, and here is a duplex written by the poet I.S. Jones. Like a typical sonnet, a duplex has fourteen lines. It’s organized into seven, two-line stanzas. The second line of the first stanza is echoed by (but not identical to) the first line of the second stanza, the second line of the second stanza is echoed by (but not identical to) the first line of the third stanza, and so on. The last line of the poem is the same as the first.
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Sunra Rainz 