Dreadful corpses
Cease breath and flesh
No miracles today
Just anger
Perplexed
Dead bones
People pass all day
And wander
Day 13 prompt from Toads and a news flash of strike on Syria ten minutes ago
Dreadful corpses
Cease breath and flesh
No miracles today
Just anger
Perplexed
Dead bones
People pass all day
And wander
Day 13 prompt from Toads and a news flash of strike on Syria ten minutes ago
opening
departing
I kept saying
painting
staving
waiting
living
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dVerse prompt erasure poem of Late Ripeness by Czeslaw Milosz and rebelling against a poetry teacher who said not to use the “ing” words
French platoon
Pack of riders
Save energy riding close
Near
Behind
Dramatic
The peloton travels
As birds flying in formation
Slip off
Rejoin
Manoeuvre
Develop fluid center
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Peloton Quilt by Fran Fuller for Ars Poetica Fiber Artists and Writers Collaboration at the Bainbridge Artisans Resource Network (BARN)