Bloody light of basement bars
Cat in funeral singer’s clothing
Twin-tipped tongue, glacial ice eyes
Skin a pale palimpsest
Warmth of a faltering fire
Prim on the fainting couch
A crow’s familiar
Launching Poesy, the poetry section of Read Write Repeat, with a quick sketch from my workshop last weekend.
Piper Writers House on the campus of ASU has been putting on amazing fiction and poetry events for years: conventions, classes, speakers, workshops, readings. Last Saturday I had the good fortune of participating in a Surrealist Poetry workshop led by Kelli Russell Agodon, a terrific Seattle-area poet whose work I’ve admired for several years. (Subscribe to her Substack, Notes from My Electric Typewriter.)
This first-draft poem is from our first workshop exercise: Choose a favorite or least favorite person or place, then write a list poem with surrealist phrases.
Which do you think I picked? Let me know in the comments.
Love this poem, especially the first line. Nice imagery!