Gently falling skin economy
Expectation – snow
A meridian of angles to better
The quacking of a fragile biology
Feathered eggshell of a father
To pollute our failures we lubricated silence
Crashed the sneering anti-party
Hid carapace’s measure in a cube
A field guide to pieces
Medicine glass – a fire
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prompt from Poets & Writers’ The Time is Now:
Make a list of ten words by flipping randomly through any book–a dictionary, a poetry collection, a novel, an encyclopedia–and choosing a word you see on the page. Incorporate these words into a poem made up of three stanzas composed of five lines each.
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