watching our shoes on the uneven
dirt path covered with large rocks.
The eucalyptus trees rustles to our left
and we have just a moment to spot
the bright white backside of a bull
its horns curling out from either side
of its bulk as it runs through the grove
with surprising speed and nervousness
for an animal so much larger than we.
Megan, that's so cool that you're continuing to write poems beyond NaPoWriMo. Brava.
ReplyDeleteGo to my blog post for today and you'll see why.
Hope you're well! Once again, wonderful imagery in this poem, especially the "horns curling out from either side."
Thanks, Vince.
DeleteI was always hoping to continue after April, but I wanted to see how I managed for the first thirty days before I committed myself.
I have too many ideas to stop now.
With regard to erasure poems, Megan, if you look at my response to Chromapoesy in the blog (that post you looked at a little while ago), there are a couple of links to carrieola's erasure poems on deviantArt ... look at hers. She is the queen of the form.
ReplyDeleteMegan, I'll save you the trouble. Here are the links:
ReplyDeletehttp://carrieola.deviantart.com/art/Beautiful-Leech-198101700
http://carrieola.deviantart.com/art/The-Sea-168886810
And then, from my own blog, on Day 30, two erasure poems my friend Catherine and I did:
http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2012/04/day-30-napowrimo-poem-day.html
You know, I don't know what to call them exactly. Carrieola simply calls them "found poetry." That seems really broad to me. The name "erasure poem" calls attention to the gaps rather than the chosen words so that doesn't seem quite right. And the name "altered-page poem" is connected to another art form, the "altered book." Oh, see http://humument.com, where the form is called "treated book." I don't know.
Hey, are you on facebook? Might be easier to communicate there.