Angels Tossed Last Christmas

[nibbed]

Hello nibbed. This is prose, not a prose poem.
A prose poem is still a poem: it needs to be about showing rather than telling.
It’s harder to write a prose poem because the cadence has to be managed without the device of line breaks.
A great example of a prose poem: https://earthpoemanthology.wordpress.com...dead-seal/

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In particular look at the richness of imagery in the example above:

And the seal’s skin looks like an old over coat, scratched here and there — by sharp mussel shells maybe.

Thank you, Achebe. That is an excellent example. I am a smidgen learning disabled and wasn't grasping completely what 71 degrees was trying to say. That poem really helped me to understand why mine didn't seem to be working, poetically. I needed either the line breaks or be more descriptive, with cadence, to make a poem. The poem you suggested seems like a wonderful recording of observation done very poetically and cleverly. Thank you!

-nibbed