Poem

Exercise: write a 13 line poem with the following words, one per line in the order they are given-

bread, moon, seed, child, sand, fruit, body, war, man, storm, work, woman, word

That is what my contemporary american poetry professor abbot cutler said to my class this afternoon. This is my stab at it. It's not the greatest thing ever. And it was written in 15 minutes.

It's untitled, btdubs....

10.01.08

by: 1sideofanampersand

She sliced the bread

As the moon rose in the sky.

While the seed grew in the ground, 

The child crawled around and stopped

At the coarse brown sand.

A rotten piece of fruit lay there

Next to the decomposing body of a rabbit.

The maggots waged war on the rabbit.

A man walked towards the rabbit

As the storm rolled in.

He started to work on a painting 

Of a woman he met ten years ago,

But instead he painted a word.