Poetry Postcard Challenge - Day 20

I went to Busboys & Poets earlier and had several ideas about poems. If only I had written them down while I was still there, because by the time I made it home, the ideas had evaporated. Dang.

Oh well, I did manage to find a new idea for a poem after reading a few chapters of Substitute Me by Lori Tharps. I know it's a work of fiction and everything, but some of it feels very authentic...like, one of the characters attends Smith College, like Lori did. There was actually one section that...let me just write it here, and then I'll explain:

The truth was, she loved cooking, she loved traveling, and she liked kids. She liked feeling useful, and she liked being in beautiful spaces. She loved music and dancing and the taste of a foreign language rolling off her tongue. She loved reading literary fiction with multicultural characters and watching spoken-word poetry performances in intimate theaters (pg 18).

This passage is what inspired my postcard. Novels may come from an author's imagination, but I think pieces of themselves also sink in between the lines, by choice or unconsciously.

Two-thirds done with this challenge, postcard 20 is finished, into the mailbox it goes (tomorrow).