Chapbook poem idea
My first thought for the chapbook was that I would do a shape poem, where I could make the words into boxes that would get smaller, but then I was struck by inspiration and I started writing this:
I will remember you in the starstruck night
When I see your carefully controlled motions
That is the cage, that is the shed you’ve
Hidden in;
Tongues are worthless currency, all the words
are in the action—reaction can get you
inside a box with solemn voices warning
So you
Hold
Back / Your hands up / Your child closer
And you brace
—
It definitely needs a lot more work but this is the general gist of what I was thinking. If we all end up writing two poems, I want to explore a different syntactical method that incorporates our theme.
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