Poem Project: Day 2 (Take Two)

I have to admit that despite my interest in the poem as process, I feel quite anxious posting this today. My thought process is made translucent, but so are my lapses in judgment, my misgivings, my uncertainties, my mistakes.

I have 2 sets of 7 lines to write for today. I have five sets written to choose from. I may choose a couple from this set as the first set and write second sets in response to those. Numbering the lines before writing is an interesting way to write, and the following sets gain momentum from what came before them. With the first set, the words in brackets were taken from the first word bank and arbitrarily plopped into the lines before I actually filled them with the rest of the word. It wasn't altogether successful, so I didn't finish the second line, but I did use what I wrote there to guide the writing of the second set.


It's hard to write without a specific idea in mind, so a lot of this was just trying to discover what I wanted to pursue, using the image as a point of departure. I imagine that after writing all 7 sections, I may decide to reorder to allow for new narratives to form and go from there.

I think I will not actually post the typed sections here until the 7th day. I'll probably make another word bank today, and perhaps write another set in response to that. So much in selection.