Here is an erasure poem I did in my writing group a while ago. I found it while cleaning up paperwork on my desk. It came from an article about football. Football is not where it ended up. Here’s the text if I were to format it like a poem: Every shudder of injury for …
Category Archive: Poetry
Oct 26
Better know a crazy person of the day
In the late 1700s, a poet named Christopher Smart was put in the looney bin. Why? Because his religious zeal had increased to the point where he was not only praying, frequently and loudly, in the street, but he was forcing random other people to pray with him. They decided to give him a nice …
Sep 20
Slow Poem.
Here’s my first go at writing a slow poem: Age Twelve, Sharing a Room With Grammy When you’re old, your hands and feet are blocks of wood. She sits slowly, easing down over calcified knees. Her bent index finger is a post to wrap a shoelace on muscle memory ties the bow, certainly not the …