Through forest-clenched winters,
along roiling streets and
urban rivers
toward
whatever
dragons
understanding
crimes and
complicated clones
may help
reveal.
I imagined the
fine stags
tenderly strung
with
jewelry
shells and
tiny teeth
charming family
friends
and
loved years
12,000 ones
before
more modern pyramids
built
the great people
in Egypt.
Sources (in order of appearance):
McNamara, Mary. “TV relationships finally get more complex”. Chicago Tribune. 20 April 2014: Arts + Entertainment, 6.
Steves, Rick. “Europe’s art framed in the quiet moments”. Chicago Tribune. 20 April 2014: Travel, 2.
The prompt:
Select a newspaper article or passage from a newspaper article as your source text. Switch the first noun with the second noun, the third noun with the fourth noun, and so on until you’ve reached the end of your text.
http://www.foundpoetryreview.com/blog/oulipost-20-lescurean-permutation-plain/
love the way this almost spills out as i read it. especially love that last stanza and the 12,000 ones…