Archive for June, 2007

a note on methodology

Where works have multiple authors cited, unless otherwise noted, they are written either as exquisite corpses or per-line.   Each author writes one line, then passes the paper around the circle.  The poem ends when it ends.  There is no revision of the others’ lines.

The Snake

Lifting his head
To taste the dark–
Multifoliate.

The rose is shrunken
Inward on the stem.
The grass is wet.

Over and over
I tell myself:
Selfishness is
The first great sin.

The Opossum

Fingers laced and locked
Like the teeth of a cat
She stares at the door.

Hour by hour
In the blind dark
The opossum hangs
From the dogwood.