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For You
All poetry is prayer, the poet says, Lifting eyes to the sky The rhythm clinging to each heartbeat In the white space That breathes beyond and between Each syllable, each sentiment, each word, Spoken and unspoken All dance … Continue reading
In the Beginning
Van Ronk worked at the Gaslight brings me a bottle in a paper bag drinking songs all through the night asleep with that guitar in my hands stunned, stoned or straight Goodness hides behind its gates Bloodstream of the … Continue reading
Witness
The wind kicks up And I wake up Remembering, knowing In this moment I am alive Swirling life, dancing wind The wind dies down And I hold on Remembering, knowing Such lives have gone before And are no more … Continue reading
Oulipost #30: Remnants
Oulipost #30: Patchwork Quilt Conclude the project by writing a poem that incorporates words and lines from all of your past 29 poems. Suddenly silent inside Distant memories coming into focus in dreamlike fashion All these promises have been … Continue reading
Oulipost# 29: Recovery
Oulipost #29: Canada Dry. The name of this procedure is taken from the soft drink marketed as “the champagne of ginger ales.” The drink may have bubbles, but it isn’t champagne. In the words of Paul Fournel, who coined the … Continue reading
Oulipost #28: Heartbleed
Sourced from The Contra Costa Times, Bay Area News Group, April 28, 2014 (Double-layered passwords help secure accounts, Anick Jesdanun)
Oulipost #27: A Novel Mashup
Oulipost #27:Create a 14-line sonnet sourced from lines from your newspaper that is divided according to the first five digits of the irrational number pi – that is, into stanzas of 3, 1, 4, 1 and 5 lines. As with … Continue reading
Oulipost #26: Limbo
Sourced from The Contra Costa Times, Bay Area News Group, April 26, 2014. Beautiful Outlaw (Belle Absente).The outlaw in question is the name of the person (or subject) to whom the poem is addressed. Each line of the poem includes … Continue reading
Oulipost #25: Another Friday Night in the Suburbs
Oulipost #25. Larding: Aka “line stretching.” From your newspaper text, pick two sentences. Add a new sentence between the first two; then two sentences in the new intervals that have become available; and continue to add sentences until the passage … Continue reading
Oulipost #24: Lovesick
Oulipost #24. Homosyntaxism is a method of translation that preserves only the syntactic order of the original words. To give a rudimentary example, if N=noun, V=verb and A=adjective, the outline NVA could yield solutions such as “The day turned cold,” … Continue reading
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