Sign Inventory - week 1

A Martian Sends a Postcard Home

This poem is arranged in couplets. Takes on a voice of  a martian viewing earth and the perspective he takes on common daily objects. This absurd point of view it very unique bringing an original quality to the commonality of things. The use of descriptions is very detailed and specific and paints  a picture or image.

Free Write - Week 1

A breath of smokey air

Succumb to yonder howls

The window squeaks

The air breathes

A broken jewelry box

A broken branch 

The creak of my rocking chair. 

My hands trembling violently

On my desk over shattered love letters. 

The gun gripped in my fist. 

The wolf confines me. 

I started writing some scraps of  a poem inspired by a scene in the novel i am writing. It isnt very good, im not a great poet, but its a start at least. 

Response #2 - Week 1

This makes it very unique because of the child like perspective that is blurred with dark morbidity of the arteries exploding. Its very intriguing and tells a story as it stemmed from your anger in a scene during a moment.

Response #1 - week 1

I love all the aspects of your cat you are bringing into the poetic piece. Cats are mysterious little creatures that sneak and sleuth around and are perfect to expand on in a poetic context because there is so much depth to them. And it is condensed rather nicely.

improv-ing - week 1

A Martian Sends a Postcard Home

There are people trapped in a metallic box crying to get out while others celebrate their entombment.

A long tube like a feather that breathes with life and exhales spirals that choke those around them like a plague.

A friendly monster that must be fed yet can  be emptied  when it roars and keeps it mouth agape for far too long.

Calisthenics - week 1

Smell : Smoke

The long thick dancer's legs wrap around you leaving abrasions. A clinging leech crawling back up for freedom. The frost over a light pole fading away distorted images. The singing ballerina from a toy music box dancing on your nose. The brush of a friendly dog on your side.

Junkyard quote4 - week 1

"Everyone smiles with that invisible gun to their head"
This highlights the inner hate and feeling of self-destruction we all feel deep down. We all want to escape ourselves so we all  hold a gun to our head as a means of desiring to do so. Its an inner struggle and yet possibly an inner safety we have set with that invisible gun.

Junkyard quote3 - week 1

"If i could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could i wake up as a different person?"
 This question ponders the basic concept of the self. What makes up the self, is it the place we reside or the time we reside in or is it more than our surroundings that influence us to be the way we are? It shows an uncertainty and discontent with oneself with a desire to change, become a new, become someone else.

Junkyard quote2 - Week 1

"Maybe self-improvement isn't the answer. Maybe self-destruction is the answer"
There is a questioning of what is better for the situation for oneself and destruction is being weight over improvement. For improvement is temporary in comparison to how permanent destruction is. So the questioning of what is worth the time to do causes one to lean towards destruction. Its an interesting point of view on things and  perception.

Junkyard quote - week 1

"waiting mortuaries"
The idea of the dead waiting in a room together for the next step, brings a sense of life to the corpses, for they are able to wait. This brings a sense of being unsettled, for as the death are pictured originally at peace, you now have the discontent in the mortuaries as they wait uncertain inside their temporary tombs.