Thursday, January 27, 2011

Calisthenic Entry for Week 3

Entry based on the calisthenic exercise we did in class on Wednesday (26th)

Life can create cancer-producing substances, its own
body, its breast, with which it presses and tightens
surfacing at the crest of pain: Fascinating 'secret'
drives us to follow the circular full skirt rustling
like stiff cream- powder with stones or with bone
mortar and pestle mixed, animal blood-neither hand
of the squirrel, nor teeth of the beaver-eaten
with relish after treatment from 2, 4-D, flapping,
sucking: a blood-loving bat. Led out of doors,
doused in water, rolled in snow, no star or cocksure
quarterback You panty archer. Have him some children?
I am going to congratulate him of her marry
age, dirty work with my own hands. The door
is shurt. Having taken my leave, I was going.
Bending my body over my glowing book, "Two
Hegelian Jokes", maybe just one: T stands
for the convential shape of the television antenna.

1 comment:

  1. Sydney,
    You pulled some really strong language from the Calisthenic exercise and the resulting writing has some interesting juxtapositions. The “full skirt rustling like stiff cream-powder” seguing into the imagery of stones and bones mixed in a mortar and pestle with animal blood makes for attention getting imagery. I think it loses a little momentum when it moves into the lines about the bat. That sequence seems to be a bit of a stumbling block there, because it picks up again after with the line beginning “Led out of doors”. Of course, this being early play with nearly random language allows for a lot of room for cutting and expanding. I am looking forward to seeing how you might work with the language here and what you might generate in future versions.

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