the night opens like a flower with a little (just! a little) bourbon
water on the ground the moon shines (for me!) halo'd
light,
warm whisper of a greening spring in the middle of the week a small thing
spring
6 comments:
josh
said...
I like it. It's simple, elegant, and pretty with a tasteful dose of humor. Rhyming "spring" with "thing" with "spring" is very nice. At first I thought it was too much but then I realized it was perfect.
Thanks Josh - this actually came out in ten minutes in one piece just as it sits on the page, with no edits. Only the title was added later. I thought about cutting the last "spring", but having that almost nursery rhyme feel put the tone where I wanted it.
I've got another one I'm fussing over. At some point I'll send you a draft for your two cents.
Yeah, send me whatever you've got. Have you considered breaking "(just!" at that point and moving the "a" a line down? It trades trochaic monometer for something else. Is there a term for unaccented, accented, unaccented?
6 comments:
I like it. It's simple, elegant, and pretty with a tasteful dose of humor. Rhyming "spring" with "thing" with "spring" is very nice. At first I thought it was too much but then I realized it was perfect.
Thanks Josh - this actually came out in ten minutes in one piece just as it sits on the page, with no edits. Only the title was added later. I thought about cutting the last "spring", but having that almost nursery rhyme feel put the tone where I wanted it.
I've got another one I'm fussing over. At some point I'll send you a draft for your two cents.
Yeah, send me whatever you've got. Have you considered breaking "(just!" at that point and moving the "a" a line down? It trades trochaic monometer for something else. Is there a term for unaccented, accented, unaccented?
Yeah, I like that . . . (see revision).
update this muthafukkin' blog!
okay okay okay. sheesh.
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