Day 26: Right on time this time!

[megwrites]

Day 26: Gather some magazines/catalogs you don’t mind cutting up and spend 10 minutes flipping through the magazines/catalogs looking for words/sentences that spark your interest. Cut out the words as you go. When the 10 minutes are up, arrange the words to piece together a cut-up poem.



Light work for
the long stretch
only one could occupy the site in your mind
the design is executed for today's
flush work, it was built with
a line of striped banners
through an open window of wood
scorned as timber, beloved of the sky
spiraling upward to view
yet didactic wall panels are more insightful to us

Comments

[smw]

I like this quite a lot! I read the poem before the prompt, and didn't expect to hear that it is sutured together from clippings. I find this further impressive, but perhaps also reflective of your choices in magazines.

[megwrites]

Oh my gosh, thank you. This is such a high compliment coming from you. And I just wanted to say that on the day you made it, I needed an ego boost, so it was doubly appreciated that you took the time to say so.

Yeah, the suturing took a bit of time after the ten minute gathering period because I had to sort of go through whatever magazines we had in the house. Some old art magazines and some home making ones and for some reason an opera magazine (IDK why that came with us from NYC, but it did) and then try to make some sense out of all of it.

So I'm glad that you really liked it because I think it was the toughest assignment so far in the 30 day challenge - for me at least.