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steventhewriter

A Few Prose Poems

Jan 09, 2007 01:12

She held her secret so long and so close that it worked its way into her capillaries and arteries. Her heart whispered it between beats. Messages grew backward on her fingernails. Her spine tried to twist itself cursive. After many years she died a lonely woman, and it was said that on her grave the flowers sprouted in cryptic hieroglyphs ( Read more... )

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awkwardnation January 9 2007, 16:34:53 UTC

I'm saying this as a hardened reader who's very picky about the poetry they read, not as a friend: these are really, really good. I like the first best, then the third, and then the second. And even then, I still really enjoy the second. Have you considered submitting any of your prose poetry? Between these three and the boy with every memory ever (was that it?) you should have enough to send out magazines. Don't they only ask for three at a time?

steventhewriter January 9 2007, 20:08:39 UTC

Thanks a lot bud, that means more than you think.
I've considered submitting them but I haven't really gotten around to it. I don't want to give them titles but it's hard to submit prose poetry without titles. But that's just sort of an excuse not to submit them.
The boy with perfect memory is one of four others, but I'm not sure if they stand up to the rest.

awkwardnation January 9 2007, 23:43:23 UTC

Given how engrained the perfect memory one is in my mind, I'd say that one (at the least) certainly does.
I can't tell even the subjects of half the poems I read out loud from that prose-poetry book you had.

steventhewriter January 10 2007, 02:21:16 UTC

Well thank you much. That's definitely the best of the others. I'll ask Dr. Clark if he can recommend any good magazines for prose poetry.

sweetvlady January 10 2007, 07:33:53 UTC

oh my gosh, those are amazing.
amazing amazing amazing.
i thought they were ones you had read and liked and decided to share, until i read the comments.
i can't decide whether i like the first or the third the most. probably the third because it just seems like such an original idea.

i would love to read more so please keep sharing :)

steventhewriter January 10 2007, 08:18:39 UTC

Thanks very much, that means a lot to me.
I have a few others which I'll send to you, I don't think they're quite as good but I hope you'll enjoy them.

driftwannabe January 10 2007, 22:52:45 UTC

I remember you showed these to me before, and I still really like them. My order of favorites is 2,1,3 (eerily similar to my favorite original star wars movie order). The way you write really makes me want to do better, which is an excellent compliment to you as far as I'm concerned.