running away

i had a wonderful greeting when i signed onto my computer this evening. a voice from the poetry collaborative saying, “hi. wanna write a line-by-line?” and so we did it right there via chat or instant message or whatever it’s called. we wrote a line-by-line on the topic “running away.” my co-author for this piece is slynne; i’ll let you know when she posts the piece at her blog (so you think i can). we agreed to name the piece on our own and do some of our own revisions. here’s my version (the original piece follows it):

Gravity

One footfall beckons the next:
Follow. The dirt path
through the woods is overgrown
with thorny brambles. It is not
easy-going. My legs are covered
in the forest’s calligraphy,

word fishing with jillypoet

in response to a (not so recent) read write prompt, jillypoet sent me five words/phrases she fished out of prose poems by david shumate: remarkable fish, floating bridge, monk, ballet studio and kissing. we each wrote five lines using the phrases and set out on the task of weaving the lines into a single poem.

we are trying desperately to keep each other motivated and resistant to the demands of domesticity.