I thought I’d get the ball rolling with a short read: a sixteen-line poem that is yet untitled. I won’t go into too much detail as to what it’s about because I’d first like to see what you guys make of it and its meaning. Besides, everything’s subjective. I’m feeling unsure about the some of the first stanza. I’d like to know what you guys think. OK, saw away.

The matriarch of poetry sits at her computer, deliberating.
Ruminating on the chaos, spatial conceptions thrown slightly askew.
Now she looks at you, askance, vibrating her eyes like, Sufi spasm.
A convulsion or compulsion of lightly summoning the Within.
Within you, within which you, within you which you harbor
The silage of self-doubt, stored in the chamber of nothing’s nogoodness.
You had asked if conjoining clauses fucked like same-sex couples.
To which the matriarch replied, “Yes, in the syntax of fucked-up langues.”

Her vicissitudinous stares eat at you, rapturous while discombobulating.
Her boring whorish features, the sexy jiggly strut of a prude.
She is there, almost spotlit, violently enunciating the alphabet.
Ah—Bbb—Kkk—gnawing on her pencil whose grip is worn thin.
She looks vexed, like a stroke-ridden geriatric without the faculty of speech.
And this vexes you, for the paradoxes of this earth have suddenly been revealed.
Where there is articulation, there is also grunting noises: Mmuh—Mmuh—Mmuh.
You quaver in the epiphany of your own syntactical sodomy.

The purpose of this writing community is to constructively respond to each others’ creative writing. So, a few things one should bear in mind before he/she posts:

  • Please tell us what kind of literary work you have submitted by categorizing it accordingly. Usually it’s pretty clear, but you could be writing a prose poem everyone else thinks is a short story.
  • As abstractly or concretely as you’d like, try to describe the aim of your work. (optional)
  • Please annotate anything that may throw us off.

In regards to commenting, please be thorough. Do not quote a word from the submission and write, “Diction.” One, it’s too vague a comment for the writer to benefit from it. Two, you’d look like an ass.

That’s all that comes to mind right now. I guess we’ll figure anything else out along the way. Happy writing!

Authors

  • JJ
  • Sean Beherec
  • Andy O'Connor
  • Leigh.
  • Robert Rich
  • dthumps
  • Raquel