Art
poetry
and
childhood
were
chased
out
of her music
when
her
stepfather
married
her
mother,
an
abusive child
who
belt-strapped
the
man
and
made
roulette
play
Russian
mother
with
a gun.
She
left the age
at
house sixteen
Initially
leaned
toward
visual
shadows
but
sunk
into
arts,
painting,
photo,
once
again
when
a man
became
pregnant
like
her
birth
father
and
she
couldn't
marry
a
job
My
abandoned
dreams
could
hear
me
making
a racket
My
memoir wrote
in
my soul
Then
a show
watching
one night
a
shaman in
my
story-box (TV)
calls
people
to
help chants
and
dance
The
spirit
of
it was
me
coming
to
poetry
A
telephone
said
to
an
interview
The
artist
can
be
difficult
of
a
role
Source: Edmonton Journal (because there is no Sunday edition, used Saturday's again), April 19, 2014: Arts & Life, Section D3, Article - re Edmonton Poetry Festival guest poet, Joy Harjo, "Truth-Teller embraces language" - used 3 or 4 paragraphs
SUNDAY,
APRIL 20: LESCUREAN
PERMUTATION
[PLAIN]
Select
a newspaper article or passage from a newspaper article as
your
source text. Switch the first noun with the second noun, the
third
noun with the fourth noun, and so on until you’ve reached
the
end of your text.
Ha. Esp loved the game Russian mother!! But the rest is good too!
ReplyDeleteI was beginning to twitch as another name disappeared and another. Glad to see you.
ReplyDeleteI like this prompt for the unexpected juxtapositions and phrasings evoked. Your poem is full of them and it all makes sense. I like that, too.