Triolet after Reading Dickinson's the Landscape listens
When I leave, a chair hisses
The cupboard looks bereft.
They realize what’s missing
When I leave. A chair hisses,
No longer realizes
When there comes a rift.
When I heave, a chair hisses
Till the cupboard owns bereft.
Cento with Dickinson Opening Lines and One Change of Tense
I would not paint--a picture--
I have never seen "Volcanoes"--
I dwell in Possibility--
The morns are meeker than they were--
A Route of Evanescence--
Now I [know] I lost her--
Crumbling is not an instant's Act
The Poets light but lamps--
NOTE:
I would not paint--a picture-- (348); I have never seen "Volcanoes"-- (175); I dwell in Possibility-- (466); The morns are meeker than they were-- (32); A Route of Evanescence-- (1489); Now I knew I lost her-- (1274); Crumbling is not an instant's Act (1010); The Poets light but lamps-- (930)
Found Lines for a Ghazal on Water
her family avoids any contact with the water.
Her youngest son has scabs on his arms, legs and chest where the bathwater
enforcement of water
strengthening water
untreated human waste has flowed into rivers and washed onto beaches. Drinking water
Jennifer knows not to drink the tap water
The liquid in those lagoons and shafts can flow through cracks in the earth into water
decade ago, awful smells began coming from local taps. The water
put their house on the market, but because of the water
reinvigorate the drinking water
cavities until the family stopped using tap water.
violated water
Note: All lines are quotes from “Clean Water Laws Are Neglected, at a Cost in Suffering,” Charles Duhigg, The New York Times, 9/13/09.
