Strategic Story Telling: The Red Wheelbarrow

A creative ten line backstory to William Carlos Willam’s poem.

The war was finally over. The soldiers who had survived the war had come back to their dilapidated homelands where their women and children had once lived peaceful lives. The soldiers had won their country but had lost their loved ones. The farmlands were empty and the houses were abandoned. One could only guess that the Inhabitants were either killed or worse, sent away as refugees to a foreign land. There was no turning back now, and the country had to start afresh. The survivors needed soldiers to be farm men now. The problem wasn’t over. The country was to be fed.
so much depends
upon
a red wheel
barrow
glazed with rain
water
beside the white
chickens