Welcome to our first post-call poet with this Cleave:
_______________darkness – darkness
______Once upon a time – a long time ago
________way back when – the storytellers said
___darkness once ruled – the land speaking
_____through Storytime – through tongues
_________through sleek – wordhunters with their
___stealthy memorized – wordhordes of
Anglo-Saxon darkness – darkness…
Cleave poem: © 2008 Dennis Kelly
Dennis Kelly has been working with Jackson Mac Low recently and his so-called “diastic” poems (seed text + source text) described in his “Thing of Beauty” selected work (Berkeley, 2008), e.g. “Quatorzains from & for Emily Dicinson,” p. 175.
For example, here’s I did for Mac Low–
“Quatorzains from & for Jackson Mac Low”
Dennis Kelly has 2 books out from SF. 4 anthologies including a Penguin…
The Cleave 