30 days of prompts: day 29
& round-up
Happy Monday!
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Day 29: Prompt
Write a how-to poem.
Here are some examples:
& one of mine:
Quotations:
(Also known as lines that made me “!!!!!!”)
At the center of the world, / our hands in a blizzard of touch.
-Andres Cerpa
What a spectacle, how blood replicates us.
-Saddiq Dzukogi
We tatters
of lace and crafters of skyscrapers
are the only animals who can make a fist.
How much simpler if our bodies’ weapons
were separate, obvious as antlers.
-Jessica Jacobs
Tonight I am water I am rain I am a clear brook
[…]
I am two hands dissolving death
-Lis Sanchez
What do you feel? Come for a moment from the silence of your leaving.
-Peter Streckfus
To watch the world, always, is to distort it,
to cast hollow light onto a cave wall.
-Kirk Schlueter
You were a body,
breathless & cold
& violeted throat to temple,
the white of your eyes, violet,
violets everywhere like you had become
a summer field overnight, blooming.
-Nikki Zielinski
Tweets:
That’s all I have for you today!
& as always, I hope you’ll consider buying some books or art or zines or giving me attention on Instagram. No pressure, though.
See you tomorrow—
-Despy Boutris