Titles

I’ve just finished this brilliant book of poems, Black Aperture by Matt Rasmussen.  Anyone who’s been in a writing group with me in the past couple of weeks has heard about it.  The poems are startling with their clarity, and the duality of their familiarity and originality.  I love them.  I finished the collection today and rather than feeling that sense of satisfaction I normally get moving a book from my bag or my bedside onto the bookshelf to live with the other books I’ve read, I felt a sadness.  So clearly this collection isn’t done with me yet.  It’ll need another read or two.

Today during yoga I had the thought of writing a series of poem titles and then write the poems from different perspectives tothe titles.  That may not have been a very original idea, but it has seemed to unlock something for me.  Starting tomorrow, we’re ALL going to be writing poems to a title.  Because I said so, and because sometimes I’m the boss.  If you don’t write with me every week, I’ll give you a title, you write on your own:

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