Today’s napowrimo.net prompt is to write a ‘how-to’ poem. Technically, I have already posted my poem for the day—but that was really a ‘readymade’ poem, so here is one that I just wrote. 1 Stay up all night doing something—having adventures, getting into trouble, reading a book, or whatever. 2 Don’t go to bed, no matter how [...]
Tag: chair
The chair and I (A poem)
Self-explanatory… The empty chair has a function in fact, it has several: practical metaphorical hypothetical symbolic I don’t know that the chair and I are all that different The chair has its place I have mine The chair doesn’t know what its place is Neither do I (27 November 2015—posted November 28)
A meditation on the art of a performance (A poem)
I wrote this earlier this evening while watching the documentary Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present… I am merely here a presence that may or may not go unnoticed Sounds may or may not go unspoken The metronome ticks in an empty room with bare walls Sounds echo back and forth killing time A network of roads connects [...]
