Beginning a new poem

[Lisa Heft]

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Subject: Beginning a new poem

 

Hi,

I am working on a new poem and would love some assistance.  I will place
below some lines I have already drafted.  I hope you will catch the scheme
and spirit of my embryonic notion and add to it.  (Don't take specific
details too literally.)  And please keep on adding without changing anyone
else's contributions.  It's raw.  I'll edit the full compilation later and
re-post it.  This is so crazy it just might work, and it'll be over when
it's over (most of the practice of poetry is revision and re-writing).



The Days of Now [working title]


On the night before Now
we all clambored over and greeted each other.

Now came the first morning,
We asked each other many conversations
and passed around the shining circle.

On the second day of Now,
I could see a long way in people's eyes.

On the third day of Now,
everyone called up tomorrows,
bellied their laughs
and embraced every future Now
with sweat-slicked arms and braided voices.

Each night Now the sky
came down to join them.

On the fourth day of Now
they saw magic inside themselves

and so blew gently on the embers inside of each other.

 

[this space is now open. begin adding here]







 

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