My cento for NaPoMo
Lying: to drink a dark with tiny
shards plunge me deep in love. Put out.
Emerge, twitch green trousers,
naked man full of salt
all dopey in the glass. To open your tiny…
Beak-mouth, the trick
is to make it pilot-personal.
Little corners of a kind of ham,
and candy limbs. Something offensive?
A carousel-sweet dress, someone
stands and weeps in the glass.
I stand in duct tape, lying. I stand
on the porch, bathrobe wired minefield.
Me deep in love? A refrigerator wrapped.
(Not really necessary to eat the food.)
Put out pungent oranges
wet from long hair.
“Lying: to drink a dark with tiny” by jojo lazar
submission for National Poetry Month Cento Contest, run by Danielle Pafunda (a sometimes-comrade in VIDA-badass-ery)
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*Guidelines for the NaPoMo Cento Contest
Thanks for your interest in the National Poetry Month Cento Contest! 36 poet judges graciously join me to choose our three winners. The prizes: a selection of the judges’ signed books for each winner. For more about the judges, please click here or scroll down to visit the post below. Here is your complete list of contest guidelines:
On April 21st, all day long, I Tweeted lines of poetry from the Academy’s Poem-A-Day Archive. You can collect these lines by scrolling back through the @POETSorg Twitter feed, or you can read them on this blog by clicking here or scrolling down past the contest entries.
Please assemble these lines into a cento (see below for definition).
By NOON EST on April 23rd, post only your cento, real name or pseudonym (whichever your prefer), and a valid means of contact in the comments section of this post. Email addresses should be formatted thus: * yourname [at] provider [dot] com * to keep your email safe from spam. You may also include special instructions on how to format your cento in the post, should your entry be particularly complex. I’ll do my best! . . . [napomocento.blogspot]
For the curious: http://napomocento.blogspot.com/2011/04/lines-from-twitter-feed.html
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