Here is my poem for Day 11 using the POETRYisEVERYTHING prompt: Use book titles in a poem: 4 or 5 in a poem at least 8 lines long, 6 in a 12-line poem, or 8 in a 16-line poem.

Here, in order, is the list of book titles I used:

Cocteau’s World — Jean Cocteau (anthology; Margaret Crosland, editor)
Seven Types of Ambiguity — Elliot Perlman
The Unbearable Lightness of Being — Milan Kundera
Two Years, Eight Months, and Twenty-Eight Nights — Salman Rushdie
Holy Robots — Vasilina Orlova
Through a Quiet Window — Steve Jansen
Hailstones and Halibut Bones — Mary O’Neill
with a grain of sand — Wisława Szymborska
What Is All This — Stephen Dixon
The Festival of Insignificance — Milan Kundera
The Coördinates of Yes — Janeé J. Baugher
The Hanging on Union Square — H. T. Tsiang
The Body’s Physics — Janeé J. Baugher
Hypergraphia — David Sylvian
The Purple Wash — Minnie A. Collins
Wishes sometimes have consequences — Kevin J. O’Conner
The Endless Talking — Haruomi Hosono

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