Trifextra: Week Thirty-One

Welcome back, Trifectans!  Thanks so much to all of you who linked up this week.  Forty great entries made it seem like you had fun with the prompt.  I know we had fun reading your responses.

First place this week is going to Hoofprints In My Garden for Summer of 2007 in Azusa, California.  Like many Trifectans, she used the word dinosaur to describe a car.  Nestled in all of that beautiful, stifling imagery, we had to read a second time to find it.

After Uncle Deni died,
I waded through
a sea of paperwork;
sweated in the sweltering
summer heat, inside
locked doors and locked windows.
I filled the rented dumpster
with a lifetime
of telephone bills
found in filing cabinets,
on folding tables lost
under tilting piles of paper.
I drove away
leaving the flat roofed house,
with its concrete yard,
in his dinosaur Lincoln Continental,
dingy champagne cream,
sunken bench seat
torn in two places.
It was gulping gas
as I gulped for air.

Second place this week goes to Uneven Steven for his beautiful poem, Dinosaur.  The speaker of the poem refers to himself as an old dinosaur in a way that drips beauty and honesty.

Coming in third place this week was Notes on a Serviette with CCCLXVII: The T-Rex & The Lamp.  It's a hilarious read, using two definitions of dinosaur in one response, and we hope you enjoy it as much as we did.

We are going to move on to the weekend Trifextra, but first we have a quick announcement.  Starting on Monday, Trifecta will be offering interested Trifectans the opportunity to have a piece of their writing critiqued a bit more formally by the community and the Trifecta editors.  We hope that those of you who want more feedback from us will take advantage of this opportunity, and we really, really hope that everyone will join us in providing honest, constructive criticism to help our fellow writers grow.  For more information, please click the tab above marked "Critiques" or else click through here.

On to Trifextra, where this weekend we're going to keep it short.  Ridiculously short.  The shortest it has ever been and probably will ever be.

Robert Frost one said, "In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."  We want you to do the same.  Sum up anything you want, but do it in three words.  Your response should mirror Frost's quote by beginning, "In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about--."  And the last four words are yours to choose.

If you're interested in the critiques, perhaps the brevity of this challenge will give you more time to work on the piece you'd like to submit.