OULIPOSTER # 5 TAUTOGRAM 'CROCKETT'

Saturday's prompt is:

'Compose a poem whose words-or at least the principal ones- all begin with the same letter. The words must be sourced from your newspaper.'

As I'm on a playwriting course tomorrow, I decided to have a go today.

I chose an article,' Catastrophe averted as pet discovered trapped in sofa,' by Ben Kendall in the newspaper, I -the essential daily briefing, April 4,4014.

I chose the letter 'T'.

CROCKETT

Ten year old Tabby

tucked-up

in the taken-apart three seater.

Thought lost.

Taken into town,

trapped.

Trapped.

Trapped.

TRAPPED.

Trapped,

'til two claws

and a miaouw

turned lost to found.

Janet Daniel

April 4 2014.