[New-Poetry] Spurring new poems

[Anny Ballardini]

Deposit Used Flags Here

deposit firearms here
deposit tears here
deposit soldiers here
deposit poets here
deposit Xmas trees here
deposit junk food here
deposit the smoke of cigarettes here
deposit students & alumni here
deposit families :& amyls here
deposit death here
deposit hurricanes and spikes here
deposit Dostoevsky here
and Tarkovsky and Dante here
as much a Plutarch and some Petrarchs
deposit your soul here
deposit your tel. calls _northern and southern calls _nocturnal calls _Nike
here
deposit the white rocking chair with pipe (ce n'est pas une pipe)
deposit Bob Dylan here
deposit hibiscus tea here
deposit your hands here
deposit your faith and liver tongue here in the lounge
deposit your deposit here
deposit Charon here
deposit Hades and Hell here
deposit your sky here
:& your skylark & your shotgun
deposit your shares here
with your life and loss here
deposit your meteorite here
deposit and deposit just a depot for the
de/pos/it


pOm written after the not yet existing homonymous poem by David Graham

:-)

On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 6:18 PM, David Graham <grahamd at ripon.edu> wrote:

>  I'm not much for Tarot cards, Ouija boards, or Cage-like aleatory
> methods, but I am very fond of dumb exercises of my own.  In my daily
> journal scribblings I'll often just give myself some ridiculous task, such
> as writing a page of description & narrative without any verbs, and off I
> go.  Usually the result is junk, but most of what I write is junk anyway.
>  Might as well have some fun.
>
> When I think of it, the most common trigger for me is probably a phrase
> that floats into my mind--captured out of thin air sometimes, but often
> enough glimpsed on my travels.  Last year I saw a box outside the local
> American Legion hall with a sign that said "Deposit Used Flags Here."  That
> will very likely be the title of a poem some day. . . .
>
> If you write that poem before I do I'll have to kill you.
>
>
> --------------
> On 9/15/08 8:57 AM, "tad at opus40.org" <tad at opus40.org> wrote:
>
> Both Donald Justice and James Merrill have done similar things.
>
> I'm wondering what else we use to spur new poems.
>
> Here's an essay by a friend on the subject:
>
> http://www.opus40.org/tadrichards/collage.html
>
>
>
> Tad Richards
> www.opus40.org/tadrichards
>
> On Mon 15/09/08  9:46 AM , "Suzanne Burns" atelierjewelweed at gmail.comsent:
>
> Sounds awfully good! I look forward to reading this:
>
>
> http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-ca-linda-gregg14-2008sep14,0,3281527.story
>
> I rather like the idea about using tarot cards to spur new poems-- Jack
> Spicer used to suggest that in his Magic Workshop as I recall.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Suzanne
>
>
>
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I Tell You: One must still have chaos in one to give birth to a dancing
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