1
It is our nature to stop and view the lightning.
2
Stones, too, can be named.
3
The biggest mouth belongs to a fish.
4
When you run with skunks, you run with stink.
5
Rape is not always a physical act.
6
The man you think you break may be the one who owns the glue.
7
Everything will come, my friend, on the wind or in a storm, on feathers or rust.
8
The best way to view a bully is from a distance and off to the left.
9
Perhaps all that is needed is a tree.
| Copyright © 2020 by Michael H. Brownstein Michael H. Brownstein’s volumes of poetry, A Slipknot Into Somewhere Else and How Do We Create Love?, were published by Cholla Needles Press in 2018 & 2019, respectively. |
I think I have read this ten times now and each time a different line stands out. Part of me would love to see what poems could be built from each of the 9 ways. Thank you for sharing, Michael!
ReplyDeleteGood idea! Let me see what I can do.
ReplyDeleteThanks.