Recent creative writing MFA graduate and administrative assistant seeking: male between the ages of 23 and 40 (reasonably flexible on age). Must give actual massages, not just running hands up and down their partner’s back as a prelude to sex. Must either have played hockey in the past, love watching professional hockey, and/or be open…
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Playlist 4 – Depressed [End] Prose Poem
Armor Your Love I caught your ‘sorry.’ Am tangles in a moon girl. I’m low, not that there’s love. You miss quiet, I left unseen. You love the fall, it’s so much you. Love makes. I cry in you, he could love still – who’s the way? With years in time, first ashes to you,…
Playlist 9 – Impressions, D26
Playlist: Depressed Song 26: She Will Be Loved by Maroon 5 Broken She comes to him every time stiff, unyielding, sharp, and aloof. She is glass and ice, and rusted nails and jagged metal edges. She comes to him with marble eyes that slide away from his, razors for cheekbones, and poison for lipstick. She…
Playlist 3 – Dark Prose Poem
Playlist: Dark Constraint: Rearrange the words to make a prose poem using only two lines at a time. Need my Want Bugging pain, grating love. It’s me without me. You wandered. I have and would die. Far/wide, I kill for pain. Need my want. Don’t, I tried and…don’t. You and I, I to me –…
Playlist 2 – Depressed Poem 1
Playlist: Depressed Constraint: Make a poem using the last line of each song from a playlist, then play with the form. Cross Purposes Click for the poem ↓ Cross Purposes Due to formatting issues I had to put this as a pdf. I hope you enjoy! © Michelle Austin and Little Gentian, 2015.
Playlist 9 – Impressions, D10
Playlist: Depressed Song 10: The Fool by Lee Ann Womack Hands Let it go. Let her go. I have my hands out, waiting to pull you into a safe protected space. Can you take that? Can you accept it? Long slender fingers. Dancing with him wearing the mask of another girl’s face. When you close your eyes…
Playlist 9 – Impressions, D18
Playlist: Depressed Song 18: When You’re Gone by Avril Lavigne Fingerprints Touch starved. Fingertips skating over cheekbones, a warm hand on the back of my neck, the heavy grounding weight of a hand on my head or shoulder. Lean on me, push me into the ground, root me down and stop me from flying away. Bracelet…
Playlist 9 – Impressions, D24
Playlist: Depressed Song 24: Dear Angel of Mine by April Sixth Physical Chest heaving, sweat seeping into her eyes and burning, bloody bruised knuckles, and copper-tinted spit coating her tongue and pooling in her mouth. Barefoot, skin ripped and rubbed out in patches, purple and red and green shins and forearms. Soft to hard spots,…
I was Afraid to Tell You
I was Afraid to Tell You I didn’t want to dominate you. I couldn’t inhabit that world if you wanted it. I wouldn’t be able to follow. That the condom in your back pocket hurt me the most and the thought of your hands on her made me sick. I needed more. I…
Playlist 1 – Angry Poem 1
Playlist: Angry Constraint: Make a poem using the first line of each song from a playlist, then play with the form. No Witty Titles For This Click for poems ↓ Angry 1
Playlist 3 – Angry Prose Poem
Playlist: Angry Constraint: Rearrange the words to make a prose poem using only two lines at a time. Comes Day Again Rock me – exactly. Tell the bass to up the me, to step me up. Step upon all my need. Time known in anyone, I always like to not depend. The hundredth everything before…
Playlists Introduction
“I realized that subject matter is not something to worry about. Our concerns and obsessions will surface no matter what we do.” “If we don’t have to worry about subject matter, we are free to concentrate on form.” “…that any constraint stretches the imagination.” -Rosemarie Waldrop Introduction time again! I want to have a…
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