#2022 November PAD Chapbook Challenge
Day 13 13.11.22
Prompt: Write an ekphrastic poem. I chose ‘Evening, Melancholy 1’ by Edvard Munch

The World Cannot Hold I wonder, was it the second dram or my under mood, who knows, empiricism be damned, this creeping darkness has me by the thinness of my tender throat, and I cannot make the sounds of words necessary for the expected divination that would lift the melan wide, returning me to myself, why so fast, perhaps, and I think it's true, the world cannot hold much melancholia to itself, but I would like to sit with it for a while. Copyright 2022 ©Paul Vincent Cannon All Rights Reserved ®️