flashquake Vol. 4, Iss. 4, Summer 2005

EDITOR'S PICKS
Barbara Jacksha's Pick:
Ce n'est pas un poeme
by Pat Tompkins

"This poem captured me with its originality, daring bite, and the way it both explained and illustrated its points. Bravo!"

   
Ce n'est pas un poeme by Pat Tompkins  

Vertical prose
Fragments
A pomegranate seed.
Punctuation disdained
allusions to mythology:
This is not a poem

A hyperbolic vocabulary
salted through the mundane.
A religious reference or two
tessellated in
unhorizontal words.
Hallelujah:
This is not a poem

Deliberate obscurity
Banished rhyme
Random glance or
Microscopic intensity:
A grasshopper's leap.
The silo stack of language,
Synecdoche
Foreign terms
Abrupt
end.

  
 


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