13 Ways
In honor of Poetry Month, and because this is Challenge 13, take a tip from Wallace Stevens’ “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird.” Pick something at random–I once wrote one on a roll of masking tape–and write 13 short “views” of the thing, ranging from the minute view to the grand.
Stevens’ poem starts:
“Among twenty snowy mountains,
The only moving thing
Was the eye of the blackbird.”
Here’s a link to the whole poem:
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15746
And here’s a site with poets who are writing a poem a day during April. Don’t know if I’ll be that ambitious.
http://peninkpaper.blogspot.com/
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