Every week for my poetry class we are asked to read one or two poets and then create work that imitates their style. Some of these assignments have been fun and others have been excruciatingly difficult. Writing in the style of Wiliam Carlos Williams was an absolute joy. It was a nice reminder that there is material everywhere one looks.
PLAGIARISM
I have slept
with another
woman.
Which you were
probably hoping
not to have to hear
Forgive me
she was willing.
So supple
And so bright.
NO IDEA BUT IN THINGS
Rainboots-!
You deceive me so!
I wear you
like they wear their smiles-
predicting rain
that never comes.
AD INFINITUM
Still I blog-
Yet no one reads;
no links, no followers,
no proof that I am heard.
Still I blog-
Comment boxes
uncluttered
by human detritus.
