NaPoWriMo #9: your mission

Prompt for Day 9
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to:
* Use at least twelve words from this list: flap, winter, torch, pail, jug, strum, lever, massage, octopus, marionette, stow, pumice, rug, jam, limp, campfire, startle, wattle, bruise, chimney, tome, talon, fringe, walker;
* Include something that tastes terrible;
* Include some part (from a few words to several lines) of a previous poem that didn’t
quite pan out; and
* Include a sound that makes you happy.
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12 Words used: flap, winter, jug, strum, massage, stow, jam, campfire, startle, bruise, chimney, fringe.
Tastes terrible: Sour wine
Lines from previous poem: It's the end of his journey, there's no where left to go.
Sound that makes me happy: reverently gives thanks


It's The End Of His Journey
there's no where left to go.

The old man strums his guitar
under a bruised winter sky,
jug of sour wine at his knee.
Smoke from his campfire curls up
through the fringed chimney of pines.
Startled, a raucous crow caws and flaps.

It's the end of his journey,
there's no where left to go.

The man stows his guitar,
massages arthritic fingers
pulls out a pot of jam
and his last crust of bread,
reverently gives thanks
for his meager fare.

It's the end of his journey,
there's no where left to go.