Trifextra: Week Twenty-Nine

Robert Frost famously said, "Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in."  We're glad Trifecta has come to feel like home to so many of you and you are all always welcome under this roof.

Mark Windham knocks it out of the park with his bleak, contemplative piece about a different view of home.

Home was a lost hope,
an overheard conversation
on some downtown corner.
It was an impossible idea,
perhaps a lingering memory,
but not a thing, not real.
There was ‘the’ home,
where lost children were fed
foul food and forgotten,
another mouth on a roster
for an overburdened
social worker.
There was the alley claimed
as their own, thinking numbers
and bolt holes equaled safety.
Cardboard beds tucked under
dumpster lids with dirty bodies
huddled together for warmth.
Home was a misnomer,
a cold dream broken by
screaming sirens and rain,
a couple walking by holding
hands, a commercial seen
through a storefront window.

Whimsygizmo takes us on another ride on her lovely lilt-o-wheel with a piece that dance on your tongue and leaves you satisfied and slightly dizzy.  New to the party, Annette Mickelson shows us a lush, lifelong love in beautiful little slices.

Congrats to all our winners and to all those who participated.  You made reading a pleasure this week.  And now, on to the weekend prompt.

Last month we asked you to give us a killer opening line in exactly 33 words.  This week we're asking for an equally amazing closing line.  It can be the ending to the story you began in the previous challenge or a completely different ending altogether.  Just make sure it's exactly 33 words.

Good luck and we'll meet you back here on Monday.  Happy weekend!