Prompt Challenge: Birds and em-dashes

Earlier this year, I started a prompt challenge where I used a word a week to inspire some bookmaking. It was a lot of work, and I gave up in exhaustion after a couple of months. But it certainly generated a lot of ideas and led to several new books. Now I’m going to try a different sort of prompt — specific poems.
Bear with me while I get to the poem I’m going to try…. I use em-dash (the long one —) when I write out my haiku, but my set of metal Bembo only has the short en-dash, so when I handset Summer in Vermont, I used periods instead of dashes. This fall I finally got around to buying some em-dashes. In the meantime I started drawing the birds that congregate at the bird feeder in my front yard.
Then my Mom sent me some Emily Dickinson poems, notorious for the use of the em-dash. One poem in particular struck me as perfect for a prompt challenge, as it uses bird imagery and plenty of dashes.

Some keep the Sabbath going to Church —
I keep it, staying at Home —
With a Bobolink for a Chorister —
And an Orchard, for a Dome —

Some keep the Sabbath in Surplice —
I, just wear my Wings —
And instead of tolling the Bell, for Church,
Our little Sexton — sings.

God preaches, a noted Clergyman —
And the sermon is never long,
So instead of getting to Heaven, at last —
I’m going, all along.

When I think of churches, the first thing that comes to mind is stained glass windows, so my initial idea is to combine windows and bird images — that’s one I did of a bobolink above. I’m not giving myself a deadline on this one, but I’ll keep reporting back as I get more ideas and build models…