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after a week of chocolate withdrawal curious, standing three-quarter turned from him backlit in a sunshine space, his hand cupped a shape a sickle thwacked the passion fruit that dream dubbed cocoa pod, cracked the shell as a lobster mantle, plasma welled, he called it wound juice, tipped it drank it sap sweet, licked his […]

love-mad crows don’t notice glass until cat — veer Spring/Fall haiku at One Breath

I took Love-Doubt of Lampman and I asked myself I wonder if I could rearrange this and keep it a sonnet? and set the challenge to use only the words he used in his, and to change the end rhymes. I printed it out in larger letters and made it a cut up. A verbal […]

Rewriting is a form of reading. While reading Archibald Lampman’s A Gift From the Sun I came across Love-Doubt. It was written over a century ago. This romantic sonnet is iambic pentameter puppy love from afar. It is towards a child-woman or woman described as a child. That last bit gave me pause of irritation. […]

One more poem draft before I get back into text ruminating of what I’ve been reading…. Never heard tell de like of dez farm help somma em settle in real nice like dey was always with us. somma em ain’t kept de sense god give a goose — ‘oud drown in drizzle — downpour’ould* do […]