[New-Poetry] Collins on clarity

[Anny Ballardini]

lovely lovely, :-)

From: "TheOldMole" <Opus40-01 at opus40.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 5:26 PM


> Oooh, that looks like shit. Imagine it in five-line stanzas. centered on 
> the page, with the epigraph (Annygraph?) in italics, left-justified. with 
> a ,argoin about 3/4 of thje way across the page.
>
> TheOldMole wrote:
>> *DECONSTRUCTING WITH SOOKIE***
>>
>> /Deconstruction is here to help but institutions are too heavy to 
>> dismantle before sunset./
>>
>> / --Anny Ballardini/
>>
>> Sookie loves to
>>
>> dismantle
>>
>> institutitions but she’s
>>
>> forgotten her tools
>>
>> or so she says
>>
>> and she’s trapped
>>
>> in the elevator
>>
>> between the tenth and
>>
>> eleventh floors
>>
>> says she needs
>>
>> help but you help Sookie
>>
>> at your own peril
>>
>> anyway she
>>
>> has her own
>>
>> plan for deconstruction
>>
>> she does it at night
>>
>> cloudy climes and
>>
>> starless skies
>>
>> most of the time it’s me
>>
>> she’s deconstructing
>>
>> Sookie says you
>>
>> have to tear
>>
>> down the walls so you get
>>
>> clarity but hers
>>
>> always stay up
>>
>>
>>