Corridors
Less than complete, he walked away.
He was only an old friend’s excuse
to hug, to graze his cheek. To bare white
pickpocket teeth. Sweating
for another identity, a foreign name,
a thicker tongue, his jacket grew light.
Nibbles from the outsider section.
Badly edited directions that safe
people would stray from only if assured.
Oprah’s chef tried the sauce and lived.
Oprah gave it [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Collaboration’
writing a poem to write a poem shouldn’t be allowed but it is
Protected: not exactly a sewing bee
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qarrtsiluni: call for collaboration
Submissions are now open for the next issue at qarrtsiluni, with “Mutating the Signature” as the new theme. The issue editors are Dana Guthrie Martin and Nathan Moore. This is a process-oriented theme: every submission must be the result of a collaboration between writers or artists. So you’ll need to find a writing partner or [...]
A cento from my collaborators at ThePoCo
Loosely Woven Ties
(Lines were borrowed from slynn, Nathan, Dana, Jo, Carolee, Christine and Jill. I took a few, very few, liberties and added a bridge word or two, played with tenses and altered a few pronouns, although in whole the lines are remarkably unchanged. For the original poetry-offerings go here. And while there bink on [...]
The fleshed out and improbable skeleton
So this is the fleshy poem I quickly put together so as to strip it for Dana’s RWP prompt this week- think crows on roadkill. No? Okay. Think deciduous tree at the end of autumn instead.
Think about someone taking all the blanks I left at RWP and what someone might fill them with in to [...]
