For a small part of our weekly Monday catch-up chats, Amal and I have been trying to devote 10 minutes (sometimes less) to a writing-to-prompt exercise.
Last week, we used Negocios Infernales cards. Yesterday, we tried cards from her Dixit set. Last week, we drew different cards. Yesterday, we decided to do prompts off the same card. I’d love to do this with our Mysterium game sometime…
The card above was the one we drew. This is my response:
LADYBUG
lady, you are invaded
a staircase grows in you like cancer
ants crawl in you, and hungry
vines pierce your exoskeleton
lady, you are a red husk, repurposed
a red barque in the wilderness
sailing a leaf-green sea
you are riddled with portholes, and I
sit, black-armored, at your starboard side
my brass telescope
protruding from your corpse
C.S.E. Cooney 
I’m glad your poem is in the macabre vein, because the image is scary-creepy!
Ha! YAY! Thank you. I think! Yes, THANK YOU.
No seriously–I looked at the image and was creeped out and thought, if she writes a CUTE poem I will … not feel aligned, moodwise. But what you wrote was perfect!
I AM RELIEVED!
Delightful! Dreadful and delicate and strange.
My housemate and I have been playing 3-card fairytale Dixit https://tanaudel.wordpress.com/2020/08/13/observation-journal-the-deal-with-dixit/
I want to play this with AMAL!!! Maybe next week!!!