Pitched grenades
sedimentary
savagery
(a cuss word not in my vocabulary)
inasmuch
flooding, sputtering
bang bang flame
fascinated by caterpillar eyes
Inocentes:
Censorship
Negates
Witness
Trina, Chicanita
Drawing
Espinas
In
Midnightsun
Entrenched in your love
Put the needle on the record and the drumbeat goes like this
2 comments:
censorhip
negates
witness
oh, such lovely language play-- midnightsun!
I CAN hear the beat.
Hi Sheryl,
Thanks for reading the exercise... it's an exercise that my writing group sent me. I'm so sad that I can't meet with them this summer (they're in Missouri this summer) after meeting with them at various locations for the past six summers, so I'm grateful that they are emailing me exercises.
This one was to find 20 words in some poetry books and use them in a poem without trying to use many more words beyond those words. "Midnightsun" is Gloria Anzaldua's lovely creation from one of her BORDERLANDS poems! I should have put a note about that word since it's her creation beyond simply a word.
Was feeling and still am feeling censored this week in order to get thru. Hence the skinny poem exercise felt appropriate to how I feel. Hopefully a real poem will come out of my self-censorship this week.
Thanks again.
E.
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