Noah
Eli Gordon offers ten prompts one can sink one's sharp little teeth into. I would like to revisit and try all
of them, especially #1, invite seven friends to dinner. Take
a look for yourself.
I
chose 5. Write a sonnet in the modern key:
Line
1: narrate action, include at least two nouns
Line
2: ask a question without using “I”
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3: make a statement without saying “I”
Line
4: now say “I” in another statement
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5: use a fragment
Line
6: narrate another action, include one of the nouns from line 1
Line
7: ask a question using “I”
Line
8: use a fragment that
Line
9: spills into the next line
Line
10: now say “I” and include the other noun from line 1
Line
11: answer your first question
Line
12: make a statement that is in total opposition to line 3
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13: combine phrases from lines 5 and 8 here
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14: answer your second question
Ladies Delight and Knock Me Down
A
juniper is disturbed by the notion of spirit alcohol.
Of
all the possible deaths, why a fatal drowning?
Gin
began as medicine, a cure for gout and indigestion.
I
prefer to think of this botanical concoction as a road to ruination.
A
brief deviation with ne’er do well gents in doorways.
Spirits
of debauched Victorian ladies and gentlemen still quaff the drink.
Do
I drink too much gin?
Coriander,
angelica, orange peel, lemon peel, cardamom,
cinnamon,
grains of paradise, nutmeg.
If
love is inebriation, I am in love with the murdered berry.
There
is naught more divine than to be thoroughly drenched.
This
rotgut is merely a placebo for malaise.
To
deviate with Angelica and her lemon peel is Gloria in Excelsis.
My
darlings, I am not a respectable woman.
Title
is from Mother’s Ruin by Ellen Castelow in Historic UK, The
History and Heritage Accommodation Guide
Perhaps my modern key is a bit off kilter...
Art
is William Hogarth’s Beer Street and Gin Lane (1751).
Thanks to Noah for these wonderful prompts. A brief sidebar here while I simper girlishly over how fond I am of his work. Please read his books, particularly, The Year of the Rooster (Ahsahta Press, 2013) and his collaboration with Joshua Marie Wilkinson, Figures for a Darkroom Voice (Taurpaulin Sky Press, 2007). I have yet to read The Word Kingdom in the Word Kingdom (Brooklyn Arts Press, 2015), but am looking forward to it.
Play along!
For those of you who are just joining us, The Found Poetry Review is celebrating National Poetry Month by offering daily experimental writing prompts from writers. I will be responding to them at poetic whim.
For those of you who are just joining us, The Found Poetry Review is celebrating National Poetry Month by offering daily experimental writing prompts from writers. I will be responding to them at poetic whim.
2 comments:
Love this, Amanda!
thanks, Carol! i really enjoyed your blues riff on the weather yesterday.
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