• If you were a flower, what kind would you be?
  
  • How would you feel if you received a bouquet of yourself?
• If you were a cloud, what shape would you be?
  
  • How would you feel about meteorologists?
• If you were a color, what shade would you be?
  
  • How would you feel if all the lights went out?
• When holding hands with your poet,
  
  • do you caress the callous on their middle finger?
  • do you trace the veins and tendons on the back?
  • do you read their palm for clues?
• When watching a movie in the theater with your poet,
  
  • do you ask why they were the only one laughing or crying?
  • do you sneak in a bottle of wine?
  • do you sit in the back row?
• When the moon rises orange behind the trees,
  
  • do you say La Bella Luna in a different language each month?
  • do you turn your poet to face the east?
  • do you howl like a wolf?
• And how can this poet inspire you?

(Today, we’d like to challenge you to write a poem based on the “Proust Questionnaire,” a set of questions drawn from Victorian-era parlor games, and adapted by modern interviewers.)