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December 22, 2012 5 haiku for people i loved before the end of the world
5 haiku for people I loved before the end of the world.
i.
We loved, then dissolved.
It took us a decade, but
we’re right back to us.ii.
You tell everyone
I was the one who killed us.
Please leave me alone.iii.
I hope you’re happy.
I’m still thinking about you.
It’s funny, really.iv.
I wish Chicago
was not twelve hours away.
We could have been great.v.
I still feel eighteen
when I fall asleep with you.
We should stay like this.
I wrote this poem before the apocalypse that never came (i’m here, i’m still here). beach sloth reviewed it, which you can read here.
Tags: apocalypse, beach sloth, end of the world, haiku, love
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November 19, 2012 Parlor Issue 1
Last week I released the first issue of a project I have been working on called Parlor.
Parlor Issue 1 is an online collection of 4 poems by 8 writers. Writers were paired up and asked to write a poem based off of a title prompt without knowing who their partner was.
Exquisite corpse art was invented in the 1920s by the Surrealists as a parlor game. The first player would write on a sheet of paper, fold it over to conceal part of their piece, and hand the paper to the next player. The players would only find out what the other players wrote when the poem was finished.
After a bit of thorough Gmail correspondence with myself being the middlewoman between partners as they wrote their parts, the poems are now finished and published.
You can view them here and you can read beach sloth’s review here.
Tags: beach sloth, carolyn decarlo, collaboration, dj berndt, exquisite corpse, heiko julien, lucy k. shaw, matther baker thompson, mira gonzalez, parlor, parlor mag, russ woods, stephen michael mcdowell
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