20
a
provocation
(especially
for Kerri Shying)
instruction
piece and example
1
a new form,
as follows - begin with no clue
given away
- no signpost upfront - you're
in media
res - rhyme
from here to
the second half...
in
the real deal there will be content - it's
just now
we
come to the title, as if we'd
followed on a trail
I call
this kind of poem an elevenses
or maybe a
middling - what do you think?
these are
the instructions, follow to letter as delivered
(like
ancient opium in poppy jars) - five above and five
below,
there's a title holds the centre, around which
fulcrum
poem pivots your telling truth today
...
now we come
to the example -
2
first of a
fire past daylight saving, shake aches,
stretch
forth and later trundle - season of webs
spun or up
with a kettle call - sit the garden then,
spoiled for
choice and later more seats to make
but
elevenses! sign up this sun for charioteer
so
heaven comes to its great height
at which
pinch afternoon gets on, it's leaf first fall
each for a
self (trolley brings tiffin too) - sit for
the
all-mown pond gold, watch the walkers beak reeds
up for
something swamp and tasty - music you could
make
yourself, till stars strum up to shine
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