A syllabic poem: nine and nine and nine and, on occasion, two. ♥ EAB Nine Days from Now He’s you with a cubist hand applied to your features, someone I’d only notice because of the split nature of this unintended moment. I’d expected to greet your laughter at the boundaries of my right side, but I…
Month: October 2012
I am Kickstarter Funded. Thank you!
There’s a perfect word somewhere for what I’m feeling, but it keeps getting pushed out of my head. I’ll give a crack at describing it: I’m overwhelmed and overjoyed and astonished and astounded and floored and totally, completely overcome with gratitude. So many incredible people have been unbelievably generous over the last four weeks. Their…
Part II: May (82nd & 5th)
When I drafted and posted “May (82nd & 5th)” a few months ago, I’d wanted to illustrate part of what I had hoped to accomplish with the staggered syllabic count: the lines were meant to look ragged, so that when the poem was turned on its side, it’d resemble a skyline. I finally got around to…
Pas de deux
It’s National Poetry Day in the UK, the country that adopted me for three years. That means it’s time to post something. I haven’t won anything since I won a digital game watch from a Chips Ahoy! box back in the first grade, so I wrote this dodecasyllabic 22-line terza rima ditty back in July…